Dangdut

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Dangdut () is a genre of Indonesian folk music that is partly derived and fused from Hindustani, Arabic, and, to a lesser extent, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Sundanese and local folk music.

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Image: Mahbob Yusof from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.