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Other/Other/Other, the formal genre classification assigned to this sound, frames the work of Nateman, whose recording Hirap Mong Mahalin originates from the Philippines. The double-stacked "Other" label that anchors this work’s categorization is far from a dismissal of the recording’s artistic merit, but rather a reflection of the limitations inherent to any system designed to sort and organize the vast, unruly breadth of global recorded music. Genre tags, for all their utility in helping people navigate large collections of sound, are inherently imperfect: they are built around a set of pre-defined categories that often emerge from dominant cultural frameworks, which rarely account for the full scope of musical expression that emerges from every region of the world, particularly regions outside of the Western mainstream that has shaped most standard music cataloguing systems for decades.
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