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About this Song
Folk catalogues from the Philippines hold layers of shared cultural inheritance that stretch across generations of communal practice, each work holding space for the narratives and traditions that shape the archipelago’s diverse regional identities. Within that expansive catalogue sits Bannatiran, a work that aligns with the core ethos of folk sound as it is documented and preserved for audiences seeking to engage with the breadth of Filipino cultural expression. Every entry categorized as folk in global and regional catalogues carries with it a set of understandings that tie it to the unbroken chain of transmission that defines much of the world’s folk traditions, passed between communities and through iterations that adapt to new contexts while retaining their foundational cultural roots.
