Breaking Rocks : : Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Trapido, Joe,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.