Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barber Shops Critique

secure Weisss ethnographic research on prevalent culture, hanging unwrap in barbershops and bus stands, seamstress tables and video halls, was carried out in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha. In Street Dreams and rose hip Hop Barber Shops Weiss does a great production line observing the insouciant c beer of the pot in Arusha. He explores how globalization and neoliberalism affect the handstal capacity of a community and shows the referee how gender role, media, and self-fashioning female genitalia play a big role in a individual life. Weisss fieldwork and utterance is precise accurate and informative for the rough part barely looses the reader in most of the topics that he presents.Brad Weiss does a great job in his chapter on gender and the role that it plays in the community of Arusha. much than of the obligate has been foc holdd on the expressions of masculinity and the understandings of men that are touch with gendered personhood, many young men in Aru sha comprehend themselves and their relationships with one some other in terms of what they imagine women and femininity to be like. But Weiss takes a chapter to turn to womens practices to show how the cultural mold of perception and chassis allude to the iconography of western culture.Weiss revealed to the reader that women like to harbour up with the multiplication in Arusha just like men and they are very informed about their look and the government agency they present themselves. Men use magazines and catalogues to keep up with the current trends but women are one step forwards and use commercials and movies to stay updated. Weisss manifestation was very informative and accurate. This observation proves that globalization whoremaster influence commonwealth all around the dry land and have a big effect on a society. Weiss regularly shows the importance of globalization in his writing.His observation on the youth of Arusha was very precise and shows the reader how glo balization and neoliberalism can construct a persons life immensely. Weiss tells the reader that through hip hop posters and magazines the younger generation of Arusha use it as a guide for fashion, music and lifestyle. This illustrates how the themes of inclusion and exclusion that shape normal practice-from the assertive modes gendered performances at bus stands and hair salons, to the fashion sensation of tailors and their clients, to the viewing preferences of video audiences-operate in Arusha.He explains to the reader that the young men and women of Arusha are social actors who try to find a niche and crusade to participate in a public that is significant for them. I potently agree with Weisss point and believe that every young person in any society are social actors who try to explosion in a world that they feel is right for them and use hot culture and globalization as a tool to get there. Brad Weiss does a great job showing the reader that barbershops around Tanzania are more than than just a place for getting a hair weakened.He explains to the reader in great detail that the concourse of Tanzania see barbershops as a place for obtaining raws, catching up on the latest trends, gossip, discovering new music, or just simply hanging out. Barbershops provide men with a chance, an opportunity or a place during snips of uncertainty. Weiss spends most of his time at barbershops because it is a great place for studying popular culture and allows him to see what the clients at these barber shops find interest.There were some things that I base problematic in Weisss writing that can turn off some readers. Some parts of the harbor he tends to over analyze and bore the reader with useless facts. I open up myself being turned off during some parts of the book where he begins to ramble on and on. In the introduction chapter he doesnt do a soundly job of catching the readers attention and takes a long time to get to his point. His writing sometimes en ds up being very rocky to read and enjoy at the same time and I run aground some chapters extremely tedious.Weisss writing style can be very uninteresting and dull in the beginning of the book but he later compensates by providing interesting topics and arguments. One thing I really like about Weisss writing is that he interacts with the pot of Tanzania and takes time to show the reader their story and what they go through in his writing. In one chapter he tells the story of two barbers named Hussein and Ahmed who cut hair at the Bad Boyz barbershop. He provides an ethnographic backdrop to the kinds of activities that go on in the shops and streets.This helps the reader better understand the thought process of the people that Weiss comes across and what they go through on a insouciant basis. It also gives the reader a different perspective on the set up of neoliberalism and globalization through the eyes of the people in Tanzania. Throughout the book Brad Weiss provides the rea der with good background information about the people he observes and tells the reader their story. I find it very useful that he takes time in his writing to make sure the reader understands precisely what is going on instead of just presenting his observations.I was very impress by how accurate Brad Weisss observations were about barbershops and the people that go there in Tanzania. I believe in third world countries barbershops serve as a place for great social use and exposure to the western culture, people rely on barbershops keep up with the times. When I visited Bangladesh couple summers ago I noticed that most people who go to barbershops go there to socialize and keep up with the latest trends that are coming from the west instead of actually getting a haircut.Just like in Weisss writing about the people in Tanzania, Bangladeshi barbershops also have cut posters from magazines decorated around the shop of musicians and athletes and share many of the same characteristics. Overall I found Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops very informative. For the most part I enjoyed reading about the topics and arguments Brad Weiss presented in his work. He did a good job informing the readers about the norms of the Tanzanian society and had a parcel out of interesting observations. I believe in his writing he had more strengths than weaknesses.Even though some chapters were dull and hard to read Weiss provides interesting information to the reader make up for his flaws. I learned from this book that globalization can integrate societies from all around the world more easily than I previously thought. Exposure to things like food, music, movies and fashion can have a great effect on a chemical group of people from country that doesnt have much culture. Globalization is like a ripple effect that can change the thought process and way of life of an individual and Street Dream and Hip Hop Barbershops did a good job showing that effect.