Street dreams and hip hop barbershops
Subtitle: global fantasy in urban Tanzania
By: Brad Weiss.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780253325945; 9780253220752
Subjects: Young men -- Tanzania -- Arusha Region -- Social life and customs; Urban youth -- Tanzania -- Arusha Region -- Social life and customs; Barbershops -- Tanzania -- Arusha Region; Popular culture -- Tanzania -- Arusha Region; Hip-hop -- Tanzania -- Arush Region; Arusha Region (Tanzania) -- Social life and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.