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M.I.A.: a modern media assassin By Alexander Billet It created a buzz well before its release date. For months, every pop music outlet speculated on its content. It provoked fervent anticipation among fans, censorship from the internet, and derision from elitist establishment journalists. When Sri Lankan-born Tamil musician M.I.A.’s *Maya* finally arrived in July, it predictably polarised critics. M.I.A.’s third studio album, some find *Maya* difficult and near unlistenable. Others are confounded by the album’s sheer weightiness, but nonetheless herald it as a glimpse at music’s dark, demented future. Neither group seem willing to parse through the dense content to see what Maya Arulpgragasam (better known as M.I.A.) is actually getting at. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45901 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
