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About this Song
Folk music, the core genre assigned to the sound titled Tuliro, is a form that draws its weight and purpose from the cultural landscapes that birth it, with the Philippines’ own folk lineage offering one of the most richly layered bodies of communal creative work in Southeast Asia. Spread across more than 7,600 individual islands, the Philippines is home to dozens of distinct ethnolinguistic communities, each of which has contributed their own modes of creative expression to the broader national folk canon, creating a vast, interconnected tapestry of sound that ties together shared cultural histories while honoring the localized identities that make each community’s approach to folk creation unique.
