Evert's World of Music

Have you ever heard of Seaman Dan? I stumbled on him listening to a cd of Australian aboriginal music – the Rough Guide to Australian Aborig...

Students asked me the other day if I could not teach a class on Dutch music. They will soon leave for a week in Portugal, doing an internati...

The month of December was filled with snow and ice. January was rather soft and now, early February, spring is in the air. Don’t worry, thi...

Volendam is a small fishing town bordering the former Zuiderzee (the current IJsselmeer). It is known to tourists because of the nice old vi...

In these days of cuts on the national and local culture budgets, the cultural sector frantically tries to answer the question “What good is...

“What the hell is going on here?” The question, by many attributed to the famous American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, is at present one...