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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 the exoticism of Englishness from a US perspective as well as within the wider context of Anglo-American cross influence in post-WWII popular music. Twenty years since the album''s release, this element provides an investigation of the album''s content and reception, as an important case study of (postcolonial) hybridity and (English, male) identity.

Original Pirate Material

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 30 November 2024
      ISBN-13 9781009162623
      978-1009162623
      ISBN-10 1009162624
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      Book Synopsis

      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 the exoticism of Englishness from a US perspective as well as within the wider context of Anglo-American cross influence in post-WWII popular music. Twenty years since the album''s release, this element provides an investigation of the album''s content and reception, as an important case study of (postcolonial) hybridity and (English, male) identity.

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