Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2017.
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| Series: | Dislocations ;
v. 19. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785333996 1785333992 |