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 |
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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. |