Anders Høg Hansen

Broschiertes Buch

Mix Tape Memories

Movement and Difference in Life Writing

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-40465-8
• 1st edition 2023
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9783031404658
• ISBN-10: 3031404653
• Artikelnr.: 71530347

Rezensionen

"Anders Høg Hansen book, Mix Tape Memories, is a book about largely unknown figures whose lives remained personal and who sought normality in contexts that picked at normality. Being unknown, information about many of these people's lives is very difficult to come by and so, this is a valuable collection of stories Anders has worked to present for us." (Kneo Mokgopa, HERRI 10, herri.org.za, August, 2024)