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Dangdut, the distinct Indonesian cultural form named in the full title of this collection, occupies a central space in the country’s rich, diverse musical ecosystem, aligned with the global classification of world music that frames regionally rooted, culturally specific sonic traditions for audiences across geographic and cultural boundaries. The genre of world music itself was created to carve out space for artistic expressions that fell outside the dominant Western commercial music industry, centering works that carry the unique history, values, and creative inheritances of their communities of origin, rather than lumping all non-Western music into vague, othering categories that erased their specificity.
