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

Weiss, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253325943 ISBN 13: 9780253325945

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 neo-liberalism for urban youth in Africa today, exploring urban Tanzanians' complex, new ways of understanding their place in the world.

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Review:

"Dr. Weiss has chosen a very difficult group to study - young men - but also a group about which we urgently need to know much more, since they are increasingly seen, in Africa and elsewhere, as a problem-group that is potentially dangerous... A seminal analysis of the global-local conundrum." Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam

About 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: 0253325943
• ISBN 13: 9780253325945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280