Cultured states : youth, gender, and modern style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
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Cultured states : youth, gender, and modern style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
Duke University Press, 2011
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Bibliography: p. [253]-269
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Cultured States is a vivid account of the intersections of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 1960s and early 1970s. Andrew Ivaska describes a cosmopolitan East African capital rocked by debates over youth culture, national cultural policy, the rumored sexual escapades of the postcolonial elite, the content of university education, leftist activism, and the reform of colonial-era marriage laws. If young Tanzanians saw themselves as full-fledged participants in modern global culture, their understandings of the modern conflicted with that of a state launching "decency campaigns" banning cultural forms such as soul music, miniskirts, wigs, and bell-bottoms. Promoted by the political elite as a radical break from the colonial order, these campaigns nonetheless contained strong echoes of colonial assumptions about culture, tradition, and African engagements with the modern city. Exploring the ambivalence over the modern at the heart of these contests, Ivaska uses them as lenses through which to analyze struggles around gender relations and sexual politics, youth and masculinity, and the competition for material resources in a Dar es Salaam in rapid flux. Cultured States is a major contribution to understandings of urban cultural politics; national political culture; social struggles around gender, generation, and wealth; and the transnational dimensions of postcolonial histories too often conceived within national frames.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Postcolonial Public Culture in Sixties Times 1
1. National Culture and Its Others in a Cosmopolitan Capital 37
2. "The Age of Minis": Secretaries, City Girls, and Masculinity Downtown 86
3. Of Students, 'Nizers, and Comrades: Youth, Internationalism, and the University College, Dar es Salaam 124
4. "Marriage Goes Metric": Negotiating Gender, Generation, and Wealth in a Changing Capital 166
Conclusion 206
Notes 219
Bibliography 253
Index 271
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