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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dislocations ; 19Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785333989
  • 9781785333996
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.63096751 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3503.C68 T73 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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