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About this Song
Rooted in the vast, interconnected network of oral and performance traditions that stretch across the Philippine archipelago’s more than 7,000 islands, the sound of Way Sukod carries the core sensibilities that define the region’s global folk lineage, tying it to centuries of creative expression that centers community, place, and the shared experiences of the archipelago’s diverse Indigenous and local cultural groups. Philippine folk music, the category that frames this work, encompasses a vast range of creative practices that have evolved alongside the archipelago’s long history of cultural exchange, from the early regional trade networks that connected island communities to one another and to neighboring Southeast Asian societies, to the later social shifts that shaped local art across centuries of colonial and post-colonial life.
