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.

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

Autorentext
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.

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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, 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. BLT X, 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