Writers' Room

📅 12 April 2026 (Sunday)

🕰️ 6 p.m. (SGT) / 9 p.m. (AEDT)

What makes music ‘national’ or representative of a community? As commercially successful international music gets adopted and integrated locally, how does the fusion of new musical influences still authentically reflect local communities and their culture? Join us to tackle these questions—and more!—with Pippo Carmona ('Rocking and rolling') and Ilya Katrinnada ('Straight outta Kutaraja') in a fun, facilitated dialogue that unpacks their pieces on the politics of pop and rock music in the Philippines and the emergence of a rich hip-hop scene in Aceh, Indonesia.  

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