Hitam Putih anchors itself as a pop sound emerging from the creative landscape of Indonesia, a work that sits within the sprawling, ever-evolving lineage of popular music creations that have circulated from the archipelago’s vast network of makers and artists for decades. Pop as a global genre carries with it the unique ability to adapt to the cultural contexts that shape it, and every pop work that originates in Indonesia brings with it an unmissable connection to that specific place’s relationship to the form, one that has developed and shifted over generations as pop music moved through the country’s thousands of diverse islands, merging with the long, rich history of musical expression that has defined Indonesian communities for centuries.