Breaking Rocks(English, Electronic book text, Trapido Joe)

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Breaking Rocks(English, Electronic book text, Trapido Joe) is written by Trapido Joe and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785333992 (ISBN 10) and 9781785333996 (ISBN 13).

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.