Mix Tape Memories

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.

“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)

• Side A: Chapter 1: A1 The Reading Room of the Black Power MovementLewis 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, TherapyWriting 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 GlobalSorrow Songs, Dengue Fever, Sixto Rodriguez, and M.I.A