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From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?s most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has recently attracted the attention of a diverse, multi-disciplinary, range of scholars, making it currently one of the continent?s most studied urban centres. This collection from eleven scholars from Africa, Europe, North America and Japan, draws on some of the best of this scholarship and offers a comprehensive, and accessible, survey of the city?s development. The perspectives include history, musicology, ethnomusicology, culture including popular culture, land and urban economics. The opening chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the city. Subsequent chapters examine Dar es Salaam?s twentieth century experience through the prism of social change and the administrative repercussions of rapid urbanisation; and through popular culture and shifting social relations. The book will be of interest not only to the specialist in urban studies but also to the general reader with an interest in Dar es Salaam?s environmental, social and cultural history.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright Page
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  1. Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, Contributors
  2. pp. iii-vii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-11
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  1. 1. The Emerging Metropolis: A history of Dar es Salaam, circa 1862-2000
  2. pp. 13-75
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  1. Part One: Administering Urbanization: Regulation and its failures in colonial Dar es Salaam
  2. pp. 76-173
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  1. 2. Fueling the City: Dar es Salaam and the evolution of colonial forestry, 1892-1960
  2. pp. 79-96
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  1. 3. Race, Class and Housing in Dar es Salaam: The colonial impact on land use structure, 1891-1961
  2. pp. 97-117
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  1. 4. Between Segregation and Gentrification: Africans, Indians, and the struggle for housing in Dar es Salaam, 1920-1950
  2. pp. 118-135
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  1. 5. ‘Brothers by Day’: Policing the urban public in colonial Dar es Salaam, 1919-1961
  2. pp. 136-156
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  1. 6. Unpretentious Bars: Municipal monopoly and independent drinking in colonial Dar es Salaam
  2. pp. 157-173
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  1. Part Two: Competing Cultures in Colonial and Postcolonial Dar es Salaam
  1. 7. The Ngoma Impulse: From club to nightclub in Dar es Salaam
  2. pp. 177-197
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  1. 8. Simba or Yanga?: Football and urbanization in Dar es Salaam
  2. pp. 198-212
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  1. 9. In the ‘Age of Minis’: Women, work and masculinity downtown
  2. pp. 213-231
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  1. 10. ‘I am a Partial Person’: The urban experience of rural music
  2. pp. 232-249
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  1. 11. ‘Here’s a Little Something Local’: An early history of hip-hop in Dar es Salaam, 1984-1997
  2. pp. 250-272
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 273-279
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  1. Back Cover
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