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Pop is often framed as a uniform global product, streamlined for cross-cultural appeal, but that framing erases the way every iteration of pop carries the unique fingerprints of its origin context: the histories of creative practice, community connection, and cultural expression that shape how artists in any given region approach the form. Too often, pop works from regions outside of the major Western music industry centers are lumped into generic categories that erase their specific cultural context, stripped of their origin and treated as interchangeable with any other pop work released anywhere in the world. This flattening of pop’s diversity does a disservice not only to the creators who shape these works, but to listeners who miss out on the full depth of meaning that comes from understanding where a sound comes from, the creative traditions that inform it, and the community that it was first made to speak to.
