TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trapido,Joe
TI  - Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa 
T2  - Dislocations
SN  - 9781785333989
AV  - ML3503.C68 T73 2017eb
U1  - 781.63096751 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Congolese (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Europe
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Music patronage
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Popular music
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - angola
KW  - central africa
KW  - congo kinshasa
KW  - congo
KW  - congolese music
KW  - congolese popular music
KW  - democratic republic of the congo
KW  - diamond dealers
KW  - dr congo
KW  - drc
KW  - economics
KW  - europe
KW  - fieldwork
KW  - france
KW  - francophone country
KW  - gangsters
KW  - globalization
KW  - ideology
KW  - kinshasa
KW  - love song
KW  - music
KW  - musicians
KW  - name check
KW  - paris
KW  - patronage payments
KW  - patronage
KW  - patrons
KW  - performing arts
KW  - political economy
KW  - politicians
KW  - politics
KW  - post colonial africa
KW  - postcolonialism
KW  - power
KW  - prestige
KW  - song dedications
KW  - the droc
KW  - value
KW  - zaire
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333996?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333996
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785333996/original
ER  -