Evert's World of Music

Summer holiday's over, work has started. The PhD is written, so time for a new project. I am not going to tell you what it is, only tha...

I was in Shanghai for an ethnomusicological conference. On the day-off, we had the option to go on excursion. I chose to go to Wu Zhen, a ‘...

Amongst anthropologists and their musical counterparts, ethnomusicologists, one of the shared pleasures is story telling. Widely shared ar...

I am sure it will not be of interest to many of you, but this is blog entry nr. 100. 2.5 years of writing an average of one entry every week...

When we came back from a visit to something we saw a huge van parked in the street. A colorful van, advertising itself as the 'Classic ...

"I don't teach music because it makes you smart. I teach music because it makes you into a human being." That's the way mu...

We were watching a show on television - André Rieu and his orchestra playing in Sao Paolo (Brasil). Lots of Japanese in the audience, of cou...