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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brad WeissPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780253220752ISBN 10: 0253220750 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 04 May 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Popular Practices and Neoliberal Dilemmas in Arusha 1. Themes and Theories: Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere 2. Enacting the Invincible: Youthful Performance in Town Portraits 1: Bad Boyz Barbers 3. Thug Realism: Inhabiting Spaces of Masculine Fantasy Portraits 2: Aspiration 4. The Barber in Pain: Consciousness, Affliction, and Alterity Portraits 3: Uncertain Prospects 5. Gender (In)Visible: Contests of Style 6. Learning from Your Surroundings: Watching Television and Social Participation 7. Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip Hop and the Global Crisis Conclusion Notes References IndexReviewsContemporary pop culture in Arusha, Tanzania's third-largest city, is the often-fuzzy focus of this urban ethnography. Weiss (College of William and Mary; The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World, CH, Nov'96, 34-1630), an experienced and knowledgeable student of the country in the grasp of economic liberalization and globalization, tries his hand at deciphering the meaning of local culture. His selected topics are the now ubiquitous barbershops, hairstyles, gangsta rap, modes of local transport, and clothing, fashion, and media, both indigenous and imported. In a stretch, he also attempts to relate these concerns to gender relations among the young. With little in the way of evidence, the author offers explanations for these vivid cultural expressions with an emphasis on 'feelings' linked to the overall 'sensations' of inclusion and exclusion in everyday life. The discourse is often insightful but, perhaps inevitably, almost as inchoate as the subject matter itself. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty. -- ChoiceW. Arens, Stony Brook University, Choice, March 2010 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 Brad Weiss's ethnography makes a valuable contribution to the body of scholarship that documents and discusses the parts that neoliberal economic policies... play in creating gaps between the aspirations of youth and economic realities in Africa. -Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ... an important ethnography for interpreting the intersection of youth, masculinity, and popular culture... Street Dreams provides a useful means to understand globalization and neoliberalism, particularly as it affects young men in Africa's informal economies. -Alex Perullo, Bryant University, AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW, Vol. 52.3 Dec. 2009 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 """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 ""Overall, Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops brings a variety of complex issues to the forefront. Weiss has little problems situating his work in larger theoretical conversations, thereby exposing a potential new audience to a variety of existing discussions. Moreover, his own emphasis is convincing, and falls in line with various attempts to make sense of globalization."" - Martin Kalb, UrbanAfrica.net, 23rd April 2014" Author InformationBrad 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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