CURRENT ISSUES * What World Music Artists Can Learn from M.I.A.

An article published online by DubMc :

"M.I.A. dominates a peculiar corner on the pop market, occupying an evolving niche chipped from transcultural hip hop, visions of the Global South (or the developing world, if you will), and the parallel universe of high-rolling hipster fashionistas and ironic controversy-courters from Madonna to Lady Gaga.

It's a place few global musicians go, and yet M.I.A.'s experience speaks to new possibilities for artists who lie a bit further off the beaten path musically and culturally. And it all lies in the story."

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• article submitted by: Anna Pötzsch, piranha womex AG (expo)

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