Breaking Rocks - Joe Trapido
| Автор: | Joe Trapido |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | Dislocations |
| Жанр произведения: | Культурология |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781785333996 |
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.