Breaking Rocks : : Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dislocations ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 – Bars, Music, Gender and Politics -- Chapter 2 – Exchange, Music, Patronage -- Chapter 3 – Potlatch Migrants: Travelling to Europe, Arriving in Kinshasa -- Chapter 4 – Rights, Piracy and Producers -- Chapter 5 – The Président as Gatekeeper: Patronage as a Class Relationship -- Chapter 6 – Mikiliste Economies -- Chapter 7 – Love and Money -- Chapter 8 – Charismatic Fetishism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons – who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola – this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, as well as a glimpse into the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781785333996 9783110998221 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781785333996?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Joe Trapido. |