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Autore: | Trapido Joe |
Titolo: | Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / / Joe Trapido |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina: | 781.63096751 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto non controllato: | angola |
central africa | |
congo kinshasa | |
congo | |
congolese music | |
congolese popular music | |
democratic republic of the congo | |
diamond dealers | |
dr congo | |
drc | |
economics | |
europe | |
fieldwork | |
france | |
francophone country | |
gangsters | |
globalization | |
ideology | |
kinshasa | |
love song | |
music | |
musicians | |
name check | |
paris | |
patronage payments | |
patronage | |
patrons | |
performing arts | |
political economy | |
politicians | |
politics | |
post colonial africa | |
postcolonialism | |
power | |
prestige | |
song dedications | |
the droc | |
value | |
zaire | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Breaking rocks |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828742703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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