But Girl Talk is hardly the first artist to use pop music as fodder for collage. As soon as we started playing clips from Feed The Animals in the studio, our engineer Manoli Wetherell turned ...

Nelly Furtado's influences are as diverse as the instruments she plays (guitar, ukulele, trombone), ranging from mainstream pop and indie rock to R&B, hip-hop and traditional Portuguese music.

Collage by Ashley Peña Africa, with its 54 countries and more than 3,000 languages, is not a cultural monolith—and pop music is finally embracing its diversity. In recent years, African women ...