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L O W L A N D S - L - 17 October 2012 - Volume 01<br><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font><font><font> </font></font></font></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></font><span><span></span></span><font><br>
Subject: </font><font><span>Music<br></span> </font><br>I was born and raised in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmsburg,_Hamburg">Wilhelmsburg</a> ([ˈvɪlhɛlmsˌbʊɝk], Missingsch [ˈvɪlɛmsˌbʊɪç], Low Saxon <i>Willemsborg</i> [ˈvɪˑlɛmsˌbɔːx]), a part of the German city state Hamburg, an island in the river Elbe. (Don't confuse it with the Austrian city of Wilhelmsburg!) Well, it's not one of your more prestigious addresses ... Until the early 20th century it belonged to the Electorate of Hanover (<i>Hannover</i>). Originally it was completely rural, its inhabitants then being mostly dairy and vegetable farmers that sold their wares in Hamburg, crossing the river by barge, by sled in the winter. With the Industrial Revolution, much of the area came to consist of industrial "parks" and working-class tenement districts. Promises of city jobs attracted poor country folk from far and wide, to a considerable degree even from Poland. During World War II, the Allies specifically targeted Wilhelmsburg</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, including the working-class tenements,</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> with their carpet bombing. (This is how one of my grandfathers was killed.)<br>
</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The government of Hamburg has a history of relegating anything undesirable to Wilhelmsburg, i.e. to treat it as a dump. This is where the city established a camp for nomadic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people">Roma</a> ("gypsies"), and this is where most of Hamburg's considerable number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinti">Sinti</a> (another type of "gypsies," mostly sedentary ones) live. And this is where since the 1960s most "guest workers" from Turkey and many other countries got to live.<br>
<br>I grew up in the neighborhood of the local Sinti families. I still remember the matron Rosa Weiss, who had somehow survived the <i>Porraimos</i> (Holocaust) ... She was the only person that was allowed to smoke cigars an pipes in streetcars. I remember having a lot of respect and admiration for that sizable lady, a force to be reckoned with, and I remember believing I had had a brush with greatness when she once spoke to me (and I don't even remember what she said). Most Sinti of that district have the surname Weiss (pronounced [vaɪs], meaning "White"), and most of them now live as a clan community within a townhouse complex. One of the grandfathers of the famous Sinti "Gypsy Jazz" or "Gypsy Swing" artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt">Django Reinhardt</a> was a member of this clan.<br>
<br>Family connection? Stereotyping of all Sinti as </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Gypsy Jazz" artists? Who knows? While still keeping their day jobs as scrap iron dealers, four Weiss brothers of Wilhelmsburg are now hitting the big time. They are taking </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Gypsy Jazz" one or two steps farther. You have to hear it to understand and appreciate it. The band's name is Django Deluxe, and its first album is called "Wilhelmsburg."<br>
<br>Yay! I feel proud of those fellow-"Williburgers"!<br><br></span></span></span></span><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ndr.de/kultur/jazz/cd_tipps/adwjazzdjangodeluxe103.html">http://www.ndr.de/kultur/jazz/cd_tipps/adwjazzdjangodeluxe103.html</a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5xSIBEcq0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5xSIBEcq0</a> <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">(in Denmark)</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CvGmLr0iDc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CvGmLr0iDc</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDFGdsrZOGg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDFGdsrZOGg</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p3NTUfYydo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p3NTUfYydo</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">(in Switzerland)</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbl9QDUtgJQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbl9QDUtgJQ</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OHLanXw0A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OHLanXw0A</a><br>
</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There are tons more if you search for them.<br>
</span></span></span><br>Regards,<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
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