Original Pirate Material: The Streets and Hip-Hop Transatlantic Exchange

by Justin A. Williams

With his debut album Original Pirate Material (2002), Mike Skinner, who recorded under the name The Streets, combined the world of UK dance music with US hip-hop. OPM is the result of the so-called 'bedroom producer', hybridizing previous forms into something novel. This Element explores a number of themes in this album: white masculinity, the everyday, technology, sampling, hybridity, the Black Atlantic, and US-UK transatlantic relations. It examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009162624
• ISBN13: 9781009162623
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages