| Description |
1 online resource (x, 259 pages) |
| Series |
Dislocations ; volume 19 |
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Dislocations ; v. 19.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Economic aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Popular music -- Social aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Music patronage -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Europe -- Social conditions
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Music patronage
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Popular music -- Economic aspects
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Popular music -- Social aspects
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785333996 |
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1785333992 |
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