About this Song
Singsing emerges from the rich, multifaceted tradition of folk sound rooted in the Philippines, a cultural category that encompasses the breadth of intergenerational creative expression that has shaped communal life across the archipelago’s hundreds of inhabited islands for centuries. Unlike many categories of sound that are shaped primarily for individual consumption or mass commercial circulation, folk practice as it exists across the Philippines is tied inextricably to shared experience, to the ways that sound binds communities to their lands, their histories, and to one another across gaps of time and distance. As a work that falls under the umbrella of Philippine folk music, Singsing participates in a lineage of sound that carries forward the core priorities of folk creation, centering the kinds of stories and expressions that have long been sustained outside of formalized, mass-produced creative circuits.
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