Breaking Rocks

Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-398-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trapido, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Bars, Music, Gender and Politics

Chapter 2. Exchange, Music, Patronage

Chapter 3. Potlatch Migrants: Travelling to Europe, Arriving in Kinshasa

Chapter 4. Rights, Piracy and Producers

Chapter 5. The Président as Gatekeeper, Patronage as a Class Relationship. Elders and Cadets Rey Reproduced Now.

Chapter 6. Mikiliste Economies

Chapter 7. Love and Money

Chapter 8. Charismatic Fetishism

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Trapido, Joe
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.