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Rock and roll’s circulation across Southeast Asia has carved out distinct, regionally rooted iterations that reject any monolithic framing of the genre as a solely imported cultural form, and the Philippines’ own legacy of rock and roll creation stands as one of the most vibrant, sustained bodies of work in the global landscape of the style. Too often, works created outside of the traditional Western centers of rock and roll production are sidelined or framed as secondary to the genre’s origins in the mid-20th century United States, but the depth and breadth of rock and roll created in the Philippines dismantles that myth entirely, offering a body of work that is as vital, varied, and core to the global story of rock and roll as any work that emerged from the genre’s early foundational years.
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