Evert's World of Music

A colleague of mine, whom I asked if he would be interested to take part in one of our projects in the field of music and the elderly, menti...

Christopher Small once invented - or at least reinvented - the word 'musicking' to indicate musical behavior,  stressing the fact th...

This blog entry will reveal who the Dutchie was who accompanied Alan Lomax on a trip to Spain just after the second world war - see my earl...

Although I love pop, rock, jazz, world music at least just as much as classical music, there is one thing that classical music does better t...

Sometimes I am somewhere - don't worry, this blog entry will eventually make a concrete point - sometimes I am somewhere and I feel the...

A short history of music in Europe. Once upon a time we sang songs we learned from our parents. And we, in turn, learned them to our kids....

So there I was, somewhat before eight in the evening, in the back wing of the former jail of Leeuwarden, now pop stage Asteriks, where the S...