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- Author: Joe Trapido
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 290
- ISBN-10: 1785333984
- ISBN-13: 9781785333989
- Format: 15.5 x 23.1 x 2 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Joe Trapido
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 290
- ISBN-10: 1785333984
- ISBN-13: 9781785333989
- Format: 15.5 x 23.1 x 2 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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