Overview
- Contributes to life writing and memory emphasising agency, creativity and invention
- Engages with a range of biographical media and geographical regions around the world
- Brings together old and new sources and data in storytelling modelled as a mix tape
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Side A
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Front Matter
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Side B
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mix Tape Memories
Book Subtitle: Movement and Difference in Life Writing
Authors: Anders Høg Hansen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40463-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40462-7Published: 28 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40465-8Due: 03 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40463-4Published: 27 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 258
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature, general, Memory Studies, Memory Studies