previous studies, Hawkins critiques the duo's music, performances, and identities, and
provokes the reader/listener/viewer into understanding their creativity and artistic portrayal of
British culture and society. Hawkins' method for decoding the creativity of the duo includes
surveying the stylistic and technical codes of their music (2002, 132), and exploring
performativity situated within their artistic, physical, and technical forms of expression (2009 …