Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops

Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

By: Brad Weiss

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Hardcover | 4 May 2009

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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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"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

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Popular Practices and Neoliberal Dilemmas in Arusha
Themes and Theories: Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere
Enacting the Invincible: Youthful Performance in Town
Bad Boyz Barbers
Thug Realism: Inhabiting Spaces of Masculine Fantasy

Aspiration
The Barber in Pain: Consciousness, Affliction, and Alterity
Uncertain Prospects
Gender (In)Visible: Contests of Style
Learning from Your Surroundings: Watching Television and Social Participation
Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip Hop and the Global Crisis
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
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