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Breaking Rocks: Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
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Veröffentlichung: |
September 2020
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Genre: |
Soziologie |
ISBN: |
9781789207941 |
EAN-Code:
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9781789207941 |
Verlag: |
Berghahn Books |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 15 mm |
Gewicht: |
399 gr |
Seiten: |
272 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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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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