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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Popular Practices and Neoliberal Dilemmas in Arusha
1 Themes and Theories 23
Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere
2 Enacting the Invincible 39
Youthful Performance in Town
Portraits One – Bad Boyz Barbers 65
3 Thug Realism 71
Inhabiting Spaces of Masculine Fantasy
Portraits Two – Aspiration 97
4 The Barber in Pain 105
Consciousness, Affliction, and Alterity
Portraits Three – Uncertain Prospects 133
5 Gender (In)Visible 139
Contests of Style
6 Learning from Your Surroundings 169
Watching Television and Social Participation
7 Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing 197
Apocalyptic Hip Hop and the Global Crisis
Conclusion 233
Notes 241
References 247
Index 257