This entry describes the social contexts of the traditional music of Sumatra, which is the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 45 million Indonesians, including hundreds of ethnolingual groups.

Music in Early Sumatra

Lying strategically on trade routes between China, India, the Middle East, and Europe, ...

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