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For many sounds originating across the diverse archipelagic landscape of the Philippines, formal genre categorizations often fail to capture the nuance, specificity, and cultural rootedness of works that draw from layered, local traditions that don’t align with the global music industry’s standard buckets of classification. This gap between the complexity of creative output from the region and the narrow frameworks used to organize it stretches back decades, to the earliest eras of commercial sound distribution, when creators working outside of the small set of genres that labels deemed marketable were often sidelined or lumped into vague, uninformative catch-all categories that erased the rich context of their work.
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