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Rock and roll’s spread across Southeast Asia took on distinct, locally rooted inflections in the Philippines, where the genre’s core rhythmic backbone merged with longstanding cultural storytelling traditions to create a body of work that feels both aligned with the global throughline of rock and roll and deeply specific to the archipelago’s creative landscape. For decades, rock and roll has been a foundational genre for Filipino creators, who seized on the form’s inherent capacity for unfiltered expression to craft work that speaks to their own communities, while also contributing to the global evolution of rock and roll as a genre that refuses to be tied to a single geographic space or cultural identity.
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