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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.

Popular music --- Music patronage --- Congolese (Democratic Republic) --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- angola. --- central africa. --- congo kinshasa. --- congo. --- congolese music. --- congolese popular music. --- democratic republic of the congo. --- diamond dealers. --- dr congo. --- drc. --- economics. --- europe. --- fieldwork. --- france. --- francophone country. --- gangsters. --- globalization. --- ideology. --- kinshasa. --- love song. --- music. --- musicians. --- name check. --- paris. --- patronage payments. --- patronage. --- patrons. --- performing arts. --- political economy. --- politicians. --- politics. --- post colonial africa. --- postcolonialism. --- power. --- prestige. --- song dedications. --- the droc. --- value. --- zaire.