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• Title:Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa / Joe Trapido.
  
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• Author/Creator:Trapido, Joe, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML3503.C68 T73 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Democratic Republic of the Congo Collection Bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Popular music--Economic aspects--Congo (Democratic Republic)
  Popular music--Social aspects--Congo (Democratic Republic)
  Music patronage--Congo (Democratic Republic)
  Congolese (Democratic Republic)--Europe--Social conditions.
  
• Edition:First paperback edition.
  
• Description:x, 259 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Dislocations ; v. 19.
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:First published: 2017.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1789207940 paperback
  9781789207941 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Bars, Music, Gender and Politics
  ch. 2 Exchange, Music, Patronage
  ch. 3 Potlatch Migrants: Travelling to Europe, Arriving in Kinshasa
  ch. 4 Rights, Piracy and Producers
  ch. 5 President as Gatekeeper: Patronage as a Class Relationship
  ch. 6 Mikiliste Economies
  ch. 7 Love and Money
  ch. 8 Charismatic Fetishism.