Mix Tape Memories

ISBN-13: 9783031404627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Anders Høg Hansen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Prologue – play

Side A and Side B tracks overview

Acknowledgement

Side A

Chapter 1 - A1 The Reading Room of the Black Power Movement

Lewis Michaux and the Harlem black literature bookstore  

Chapter 2 - A2 The Folk Singers Caves: First We Take Manhattan, Then Stockholm
Izzy Young mediating folk music in New York and Stockholm for 6 decades

Chapter 3 - A3 Reclusive Openness: A Black American Classical Pianist in Europe
Eugene Haynes, in USA, France and Denmark – while befriending author Karen Blixen
Chapter 4 - A4 The Human Exhibit and Teacher-musician: From St Croix to Nakskov, Denmark
Victor Cornelins

Chapter 5 - A5 Maps and Territory: The Child’s Mappings and the Adult’s ‘Walkabout’
Svend Åge Hansen’s drawing, writing and travelling

Chapter 6 - A6 Memory as Resource: The October 1943 Boat Escape to Sweden
Pi Stilvén and granddaughter Sara Rehnström                     

Chapter 7 -  A7 Facing the Pasts: War diaries, 1944-1945, Therapy Writing 1995, and the Trip to Belsen.
Phil and Michael Raines                   

Chapter 8 - A8 Letters from Palestine and Ghana
Thomas L. Hodgkin and British Imperialism            

 

Side B

 

Chapter 9 - B1 History Reimagined: German Graphic Novels
Mawil and Flix on youth and memory in Germany

Chapter 10 - B2 Wahat Al-Salam/Neve Shalom: A Jewish-Arab Village
Living alternative education in Israel-Palestine, Now and Then.

Chapter 11 - B3 Listening as Action: Alternative Education in Tanzania and Mozambique
Listening posts, aspiring journalists, role models and educational rites of passage

Chapter12 -  B4 Small Press Passions: Zines and scenes of popular memory
Women Making History, Sweden. herri, South Africa. BLTX, Philippines

Chapter 13- B5 Black and White: Race, Football, and Music in the Midlands, UK, late 1970s
The black and white testimonial, Laurie Cunningham, and the bodies that changed British football

Chapter 14- B6 Musical Living Archives: The Local and the Global
Sorrow Songs, Dengue Fever, Sixto Rodriguez, and M.I.A

Temporary closure/Tape ends

Bibliography

 

 

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.

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