| Description |
1 online resource (x, 259 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Dislocations ; volume 19
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Dislocations ; v. 19.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Economic aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Popular music -- Economic aspects. |
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Congo (Democratic Republic) |
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Popular music. |
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Popular music -- Social aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Popular music -- Social aspects. |
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Music patronage -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Europe -- Social conditions.
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Congolese (Democratic Republic) |
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Social conditions. |
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Music patronage. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
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Europe. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Trapido, Joe. Breaking rocks. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785333989 (DLC) 2016053211 (OCoLC)953981910 |
| ISBN |
9781785333996 (electronic book) |
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1785333992 (electronic book) |
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9781785333989 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1785333984 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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