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Folk traditions across the Philippine archipelago ground creative expression in shared frameworks of practice, framing each sound that emerges from those traditions as part of a larger continuum of work that passes between communities and generations within the country’s borders. Maligayang Bati exists as part of that continuum, a folk sound that draws its primary context from the regional creative ecosystems that nurture folk work across the Philippines. To situate a sound within the folk category is to place it alongside a vast body of work that centers the kinds of creative expression that grow out of local community life, rather than the more fragmented, commercially focused strands of creative output that circulate through global media landscapes.
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