Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania (Tracking Globalization) - Softcover

Weiss, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253220750 ISBN 13: 9780253220752

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2009

Synopsis

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip hop music, fashion, and celebrity. Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops grapples with the implications of globalization and neoliberalism for urban youth in Africa today, exploring urban Tanzanians' complex, new ways of understanding their place in the world.

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Review:

. . . an important ethnography for interpreting the intersection of youth, masculinity, and popular culture. . . . Street Dreams provides a useful means to understand globalization and neoliberalism, particularly as it affects young men in Africa’s informal economies.Vol. 52.3 Dec. 2009 Author: Alex Perullo Source: Bryant University

Brad Weiss's ethnography makes a valuable contribution to the body of scholarship that documents and discusses the parts that neoliberal economic policies . . . play in creating gaps between the aspirations of youth and economic realities in Africa. Source: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

From the Author:

Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. He is author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption and Commoditization in Everyday Practice and Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Colonial Northwest Tanganyika and editor of Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0253220750
• ISBN 13: 9780253220752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280