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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781785333989
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-398-9
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Dislocations
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 549 g
- Seiten: 272
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 19 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
