Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / Joe Trapido.
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Trapido, Joe (author.)
- ISBN 9781785333989
- Publicerad: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
- Copyright: ©2017
- Engelska x, 259 pages ; $c 24 cm.
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Serie: Dislocations ; volume 19
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Introduction -- Bars, music, gender and politics -- Exchange, music, patronage -- Potlatch migrants : travelling to Europe, arriving in Kinshasa -- Rights, piracy and producers -- The president as gatekeeper, patronage as a class relationship. Elders and cadets Rey reproduced now -- Mikiliste economies -- Love and money -- Charismatic fetishism -- Conclusion.
- 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.
Ämnesord
- Popular music -- Economic aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic) (LCSH)
- Popular music -- Social aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic) (LCSH)
- Music patronage -- Congo (Democratic Republic) (LCSH)
- Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Europe -- Social conditions. (LCSH)
Klassifikation
- ML3503.C68 (LCC)
- 781.63096751 (DDC)
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