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UNINA9910828742703321 |
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Autore |
Trapido Joe |
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Titolo |
Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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Dislocations ; ; Volume 19 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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