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

by Brad Weiss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253220750
• ISBN13: 9780253220752
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher