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The title Modelong Charing anchors a pop work rooted in the creative landscape of the Philippines, framing a sonic iteration of the genre that draws on the full scope of cultural space that defines pop’s evolution across global territories. When we situate any pop work within a specific national context, we move past any monolithic framing of pop as a uniform, globalized product that carries the same set of characteristics no matter where it is created. Instead, every pop work that emerges from a distinct cultural landscape carries the weight of that space’s creative histories, even as it aligns with the throughlines that make pop a recognizable, shared form across borders.
