Breaking Rocks : Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa

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Titre Breaking Rocks : Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Type de publication Livre
Langue principale de la publication anglais
Année de publication 2016
Auteur Joe Trapido
Nombre de pages 272
Éditeur Berghahn Books
Ville New York
Oxford
Genre essai - étude
Pays d'édition Etats-Unis
Royaume-Uni
ISBN (Forme EAN-13) 9781785333989
Résumé/Présentation « 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. » (site de l'éditeur, 02.2018).
Référence complète Trapido, Joe. Breaking Rocks : Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016, 272 p., ill., bib., index ? ISBN 978-1-78533-398-9.

Auteurs

Joe Trapido

Biographie : "Joe Trapido works in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. A fan of Congolese music, he is also a follower of Congolese society and politics more generally. His work has been published in the New Left Review and in Africa." (site de Berghahn Books, 02.2018)