The increasing presentation of popular music culture as heritage is manifested in the recent proliferation of museums of pop/rock culture. This calls for an examination of the current practices of disseminating pop/rock heritage through exhibitions. Two trends have been identified and criticised by previous commentators: first, the prominence of nostalgia in exhibition narratives and second, that exhibitions of popular music tend to display ancillary objects rather than music itself. This article offers a rethinking of nostalgia as a strategy for disseminating pop/ rock heritage and explores the potential of music as a trigger for nostalgic experiences in exhibitions. While agreeing with much of the critique levelled at the nostalgic approach to pop/rock culture, we suggest that with a more nuanced conception of reflective nostalgia, the affective appeal of the nostalgic approach can be harnessed without giving in to glamourised oversimplifications of the past. Further, we suggest that mediated memories can form the basis of nostalgic feelings and thus enable the nostalgic approach to span the generational gap and engage visitors who do not have a lived experience of pop/rock heritage. We will illustrate this by contrasting our approach to that taken at ABBA The Museum.

Artiklen omhandler Gunnar Valdemar Hansen, den mest centrale journalist af det dansk-tyske idrætssamarbejde under besættelsen.Hans Bonde & Jacob Westergaard Madsen: Gunnar »Nu«Denmark’s most famous sports journalist during the years, Gunnar Hansen, has always been celebrated as the great ikon of Danish national identity. He had a unique ability to create atmosphere and feelings of presence when he reported in the Danish radio broadcast on sporting events. However, this study demonstrates that Gunnar Hansen during the first years of German occupation believed that the Germans most likely was going to win the war and therefore actively engaged himself in Danish- German sporting relations becoming the main journalistic collaborator with the Germans. In October 1940 he conducted an interview with the German sports »Führer« Hans von Tschammer und Osten who promoted his vision of a renewed German body culture under the inspiration of Adolf Hitler. Also in the written press and in the weekly news in the cinemas Gunnar Hansen was engaged in reporting from the highly propagandistic German-Danish sporting arena. After the war, however, Gunnar Hansen presented himself as resistance fighter and produced an image of the sporting arena during the war as characterized by a »cold shoulder« towards the Germans.