[MUSIC] Five music links: St. Vincent, Madonna, Ireland, Ukraine, globalization

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• Michael Cuby at them praises the musicianship of St. Vincent.


• Queerty notes that the new Madonna video, for the song "I Rise", will feature multiple drag queens.


• The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress is preserving, and indexing, its archives of traditional Irish music.


• Zbigniew Wojnowski writes at Open Democracy about how Ukrainian popular music has evolved from the 1980s on, facing all sorts of cultural and political issues as Ukraine itself has changed hugely.


• CBC looks at how pop music these days has become increasingly globalized, major hits incorporating languages other than English and stars often initially unknown to North American audiences.