The present study attempts to explore the field of creative music workshops with the elderly. A growing amount of research has been carried out into running (creative) workshops, and besides we know a lot about the elderly and ageing. The aim of this research is to gather knowledge on the merging of …

Review van het boek van Leo Plenckers getiteld Arabische Muziek in het blad Kunstzone.

Paper for Onderzoeksconferentie Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst, 24-11-2014, Utrecht.

Report on the current state of affairs on ethnomusicology in the Netherlands for international association ICTM

Dit essay werd uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de installatie op 25 juni 2014 van Evert Bisschop Boele als lector ‘New Audiences’ van het lectoraat Lifelong Learning in Music, Kenniscentrum Kunst & Samenleving/Prins Claus Conservatorium, Hanzehogeschool Groningen.

This essay is published for the occasion of the inauguration of Evert Bisschop Boele on June 25, 2014 as professor ‘New Audiences’ of the research group Lifelong Learning in Music, Centre of Applied Research and Innovation Art & Society/Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences …

Professoral inauguration speech, 25-06-2014

Paper presented at international symposium ‘Dementia and Music. Research and Practice’. University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany, 21/9/2013. Paper argues that working with dementia for musicians and music students is important because it demands them to focus on the 'other' rather then on themselves and …

Presentatie in Management Team over proefschrift en de gevolgen daarvan voor het conservatorium.

This study focuses on the uses and functions of music in the life of individuals in the province of Groningen at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The study is an ethnomusicological study representing the sub-discipline of ethnomusicology-at-home. It uses Andreas Reckwitz’ formulation of practice …