Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania by Weiss, Brad

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780253220752)

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Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania by Weiss, Brad

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

$24.95
Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania by Weiss, Brad

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Brad Weiss
ISBN-10: 0253220750
ISBN-13: 9780253220752
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2009
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

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Choice 03/01/2010
By Brad Weiss
By Brad Weiss
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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.

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