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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792731703321

Autore

Trapido Joe

Titolo

Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Dislocations ; ; Volume 19

Disciplina

781.63096751

Soggetti

Popular music - Economic aspects - Congo (Democratic Republic)

Popular music - Social aspects - Congo (Democratic Republic)

Music patronage - Congo (Democratic Republic)

Congolese (Democratic Republic) - Europe - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.