Piratenpower

Piratenpower broadcasts country music from the Netherlands, creating immediate cultural disjunction. Country music's narratives center on American rural life, pickup trucks, heartbreak in small towns, whiskey imagery that doesn't map onto Dutch geography. Yet Piratenpower has built audience among Dutch listeners loving American country anyway. The programming leans traditional - Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard dominate. Contemporary country receives rotation, but the station clearly prioritizes the established canon. The hosts speak English and Dutch, constantly trans…