Mix Tape Memories

Zusatztext

<p>This book plays up stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through uncharted or unhomely territories, here told in a series of tracks depicting their roles in community memories and histories. Side A engages with individual journeys, such as Lewis, the American black literature book seller; the civil rights activist, Izzy, an American-Swedish folklorist; Eugene, a black classical pianist; and Pi, the Jew transported to Sweden during WWII. Side B focuses on communal histories and alternative educational and artistic spaces, addressing life writing and memory in German comic books; alternative educational spaces in Israel-Palestine and Africa, and  small press passions of zines/newsletter culture. Tellers and their interpreters are mediating identities where nationality, race, and class (and other markers of identity) have influenced selfhood and collective belonging - revealing how individuals and outsider cultures have the power to influence dominant cultures and inspire societal change.</p><br><p></p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Anders Høg Hansen</strong> is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. He is the co-editor of <em>Memory on Trial</em> (Springer, 2015), and author of <i>Bob Dylan 1961-1967 </i>(Frydenlund, Copenhagen, 2012). He has a degree in cultural studies and has engaged broadly with zines/newsletters, alternative education, and art and social change.</p> <p></p>

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