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About this Song
Tugtugan emerges from the expansive, centuries-deep tradition of Philippine folk music, a category that encompasses the hundreds of distinct regional and indigenous musical practices that have shaped cultural life across the Philippines’ archipelagic landscape of more than 7,600 islands, each home to communities with their own unique relationship to the folk sounds that define their shared identity. Unlike commercial forms of music crafted primarily for isolated individual consumption, folk music as a classification, the framework that anchors this sound, is inherently tied to the collective identities of the communities that nurture and carry it forward, with each iteration of folk practice weaving together the specific geographic, social, and spiritual realities of the people who keep those traditions alive.
