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

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Pirate radio and the turn of the 21st century
• 2. Big England: the sounds of the black Atlantic
• 3. Transatlantic relations: analysing the special relationship musically
• 4. Sample robbery
• 5. Technology and production
• 6. Everyday Laddism
• 7. Genre: UK garage and US Hip-hop
• 8. Little England meets big England: hybridity as originality
• 9. Mainstreaming British popular music in the 21st century
• 10. The afterlife of OPM and the streets
• Conclusion
• Bibliography.