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Colonial traces in Hamm_the mummy club

Hamm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

A 7-minute field recording by radio continental drift made in Hamm, Germany on 16 February 2022, in the evening. Soundscape: soundwalks.

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Colonial traces in Hamm_the mummy club
6:34CC BY-SA 3.0by radio continental driftInternet Archive
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Der Sitzungssaal im Technischen Rathaus ist nach Corona-Standarts voll besetzt. Die Museumsarchivarin, Maria Perrefort, hat die Geschichte des Hammer Mumienvereins recherchiert und berichtet mit einigen eindruecklichen Zitaten aus der Zeit. Es geht um Spuren des Kolonialismus in Hamm. In der allerersten Veranstaltung dieser Art werden einige solcher Spuren zusammengetragen, gesichert, diskutiert. Was koennten weitere Schritte in dieser Spurensuche und Aufarbeitung sein? Alle audios der Veranstaltung hier: https://archive.org/details/Hamm_kolonial_Veranstaltungsmitschnitt2021 The boardroom in the Technical Town Hall is full to Corona Law standards. Museum archivist, Maria Perrefort, has researched the history of the Mummy Society in Hamm and reports back with some thought-provoking quotes from the time. The evening's topic is traces of colonialism in Hamm. In the very first event of this kind, some such traces are collected, secured, discussed. What could be further steps in this search for traces and reappraisal? For info to the event, see also, https://fuge-hamm.org/2021/08/16/auf-den-spuren-des-kolonialismus-in-hamm-2/

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About the place

Hamm is a city of about 178,967 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 129 field recordings from here.

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