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Higaonon communities in Mindanao have traditional musical practices that accompany storytelling, ceremonies, and social gatherings.
Instruments can be used to support oral traditions that preserve community history and cultural knowledge.
Learning these traditions traditionally involves listening to experienced practitioners and gradually mastering the performance techniques.
Music therefore becomes a way of transmitting information between generations. The performance is not simply entertainment because it can reinforce community identity and memory.
Traditional music can effectively serve as an archive that exists in sound rather than on paper.
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