Songs of the Migrant Worker

The Dash Arts Podcast is back! In this episode we look at the
treatment of invited guest workers (Germany’s ‘Gastarbeiter’),
economic migrants and relocating members of the British Empire.


Through music and poetry, we examine the similarities and
differences between the UK’s Windrush scandal and Germany’s
treatment of Turkish ‘gastarbeiter’ and the huge cultural legacy
by these migrant workers.


Hosted by Artistic Director Josephine
Burton, we were joined by poet Hannah
Lowe, Artistic Director of ‘WINDRUSH70 - Brent’s
Pioneering Windrush Generation’ Zerritha
Brown, German-Turkish novelist Imran
Ayata and artist, director and
composer Bülent Kullukçu, co-curators of
‘Songs of Gastarbeiter Vol. 1’, which features music by guest
workers and pays tribute to the cultural contribution made by the
first wave of migrants to Germany.


Thanks to support from the Goethe
Institute and to Rich Mix
London for hosting the original event. 


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Check out Hannah Lowe's poetry here


See images and info from WINDRUSH70 here


Listen to Songs of the Migrant Worker Vol. 1 here


Listen to Cem Karaca’s Es haben Menschen an here


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