Nasenpoppeln: The AMM in Hamburg

On 3 November 2011, our friend Susann Witt-Stahl and the Assoziation Daemmerung invited the Association of Musical Marxists to talk at Fred's Schlemmer Eck, a sailors' pub just off the Reeperbahn in Sankt Pauli, Hamburg. Susann was surprised - and enthusiastic - about our approach, declaring we were "funnier and more powerful than Monty Python", an encouraging description for three socialist activists who've decided they've had enough of being told what Marxism is, and have instead started to invent it for themselves.

Assoziation Daemmerung were keen to place audio recordings of our performances on their website, so Ben Watson was given the task of editing his mini-disk recordings for release. The speeches by Andy Wilson and Keith Fisher were unscripted. Although exemplary in their explanatory zeal and forthrightness, there were some "umm"s and "err"s which Watson edited out. However, he found these articulations of the subverbal body so funny - so musical - he decided to weave them into a tissue of his Hamburg recordings, with excerpts from Susann's guide to the St Pauli district of Hamburg (including a recording made in the cart tunnel under the Elbe and Susann's explanation of the name of the Reeperbahn', the strip where the Beatles played before they became a household name in Britain) and his own reading from a German translation of his address.

So, if you will, here are three versions of the AMM esemplasm, the first two in English, the third auf Deutsch (which, you will recall from your lengthy study of the material history of subnational lingualese, is actually a variant of Geordie) …

1) Erm Erm Erm (Hamburg audio rejectamenta, or nasenpoppeln):

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2) Andy Wilson: State Capitalism and Socialism From Below (in English):

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3) Keith Fisher on Ray Challinor and WWII (in English):

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4) Ben Watson: Why We Formed the AMM (in German):

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