Breaking Rocks - Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, From Paris to Kinshasa

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa's troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: TRAPIDO, Joe Trapido, Trapido Joe
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781789207941
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-794-1
• Pages: 272
• Thème: Dislocations
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Music, MUSIC / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political Economy, Social and cultural anthropology