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Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation


The Netherlands’ guttersnipe answer to French chanson and German schlager is as popular as ever – but has it lost its roots as the defiant voice of the working class? Our writer sways along at the Muziekfeest van het Jaar to find out

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