Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius is an associate professor of ethnology at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He teaches courses in folklore, aesthetics, cultural theory and ethnography in Gothenburg, and has previously worked at Södertörn University and Stockholm University. He is also a board member of the Swedish national section of the ICTM. His dissertation «Minnets spelrum» («A margin for memory», 2005) dealt with music and the formation of pensionerhood in Sweden. In current research he examines how history is produced in transnational networks focusing Swedish 1970s progressive rock.