Evert's World of Music

It is rumored that a very deep humming sound permeates the soundscape of western life. Where it comes from nobody knows. Some people point a...

The Voice of Holland is over. Iris Kroes has won – a 19-year old harp-playing communication student of the university I happen to work for. ...

I owe you a sequel to an entry of some time ago.In that entry, "Defining World Music", I defined World music as "the kind of ...

One of the questions on my mind those days: as soon as people start to play an instrument they enter a domain in which it is taken for grant...

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...