Main entry:

Weiss, Brad, author.

Title & Author:

Street dreams and hip hop barbershops : global fantasy in urban Tanzania / Brad Weiss.

Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
©2009

Description:

x, 263 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Tracking globalization

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
Introduction: Popular practices and neoliberal dilemmas in Arusha -- Themes and theories : popular culture in Africa and elsewhere -- Enacting the invincible : youthful performance in town -- Thug realism : inhabiting spaces of masculine fantasy -- The barber in pain : consciousness, affliction, and alterity -- 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.

Summary:

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. This study 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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780253325945 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0253325943 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780253220752 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0253220750 (paperback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hip Hop
Young men Tanzania Arusha Region Social life and customs.
Youth Tanzania Arusha Region Social life and customs.
Barbershops Tanzania Arusha Region.
Popular culture Tanzania Arusha Region.
Hip-hop Tanzania Arusha Region.
Jeunes hommes Tanzanie Arusha (Région administrative) Mœurs et coutumes.
Salons de coiffure Tanzanie Arusha (Région administrative)
Culture populaire Tanzanie Arusha (Région administrative)
Hip-hop Tanzanie Arusha (Région administrative)
Barbershops
Hip-hop
Manners and customs
Popular culture
Young men Social life and customs
Youth Social life and customs
Globalisierung
Jugend
Subkultur
Friseur
Jugendkultur
Hip-Hop
Urbanism.
Cities.
Arusha Region (Tanzania) Social life and customs.
Arusha (Tanzanie : Région administrative) Mœurs et coutumes.
Tanzania Arusha Region
Region Arusha
Tansania
Tanzania.
Arusha <Region>

Added entries:

Tracking globalization.

Street dreams & hip hop barbershops

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262130
Call No.: BIB 193191
Status: Available