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Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa (Dislocations, Band 19)

Trapido, Joe

 
9781785333989: Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa (Dislocations, Band 19)
ISBN 10: 1785333984 ISBN 13: 9781785333989
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joe Trapido works in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. A fan of Congolese music, he is also a follower of Congolese society and politics more generally. His work has been published in the New Left Review and in Africa.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785333984
ISBN 13 
9781785333989
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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