Aragon Ballroom
1106 W Lawrence Ave
773.561.9500
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M.I.A.
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Friday May 9, 2008 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$25
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More than a dancehall diva or hybrid hip-hop hero, M.I.A. (aka Maya Arulpragasam) is an anthropologist — a savvy student of the urban/rural divide. On her over-the-moon debut, Arular, the lovably shrill singer/rapper/toaster refurbished the age-old summer anthem with worldly electronics and revolutionary rhetoric. 2007's Kala shows her critical eye growing ever more acute, as universalist tunes like the toast-heavy "Hussel" and world-gangsta hip-hopper "World Town" cleverly contextualize the trials of the disenfranchised. Prepare for an all-out assault tonight; her buoyant bangers up the urbanites and estranged alike, breaking out the "Bucky Done Gun"-style hooks in a series of genre-defying sing-alongs.
