Breaking Rocks

Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa

von Joe Trapido

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Dislocations
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781789207941
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books