Evert's World of Music

A linguist called Dicky Gilbers became news last week. It is always interesting to find out why someone becomes news. Gilbers became news be...

I show quite some YouTube clips in my lessons on world music. Yesterday I was talking about Arab music (I must confess to adherents of moder...

The term “world music” has always been hotly debated, even contested. People struggle with a definition. They often refer to the fact that i...

I am looking at a pile of interviews on my desk. The phase of conducting interviews is nearly over, I have to start analyzing them. After so...

"I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it but I talk it best through an interpreter." Mark Twain, A Tramp ...

If you thought that the Scottish tartan (you know, the striped cloth of which the pattern indicates the clan you’re from) is a tradition goi...

“I never ask to be paid for my music,” said the Frisian singer-songwriter. “I ask for beer. As long as there is a crate of beer and they com...