Aging and memory - the interaction of these two aspects of life is
something that everybody has to face eventually. The essays in this
volume explore the cultural mediations of these categories. Through a
series of approaches focused on practices and acts of memory, narrative,
reminiscence, representation, and collective memory, they seek to better
understand and critically reflect on how aging is experienced in various
ways across the lifespan. By covering a wide range of topics, from
biopics, music by the elderly, and artifacts, among other, they all
contribute to the understanding of memory as a cultural process always
in the making - situated in particular contexts, and shaped by its
material conditions of existence.