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E.D.S.A - Emosyong Dinaan Sa Awit
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The Tagalog phrase appended to the E.D.S.A. acronym in this work’s full title translates directly to “emotions carried through song,” a framing that orients every layer of E.D.S.A - Emosyong Dinaan Sa Awit, a Filipino R&B sound that holds its place within a growing, carefully catalogued body of work from Philippine creators expanding the global scope of the genre. From a catalogue perspective, grouping sounds first by their country of origin before centering their genre classification allows for the centering of specific cultural lineages that might otherwise be lost when R&B, a genre with roots that span continents and generations, is flattened into a single, monolithic category. This approach to stewarding a collection of recorded sounds rejects the default centering of Western iterations of popular genres, instead elevating regional creative ecosystems that have long cultivated their own distinct takes on forms that travel across borders. E.D.S.
