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Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
- Title
- Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / Joe Trapido.
- Author
- Trapido, Joe
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- x, 259 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Dislocations ; volume 19
- Uniform Title
- Dislocations ; v. 19.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-248) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 20-558
- ISBN
- 9781785333989
- 1785333984
- LCCN
- 2016053211
- OCLC
- 953981910
- Author
- Trapido, Joe, author.
- Title
- Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / Joe Trapido.
- Publisher
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Dislocations ; volume 19Dislocations ; v. 19.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-248) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 20-558JME 17-44