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Sound Tracks An Archaeological Journey Through Our Musical Past | 42.01 MB
Title: Sound Tracks An Archaeological Journey Through Our Musical Past
Author: Graeme Lawson
Category: Archaeology, Antiques & Collectibles, History, Ethnomusicology, General Instruments, World History, Music, History & Criticism
Language: English | 432 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781529927634
Description:
A breathtaking archaeological journey that illuminates the unsung role of music and sound in shaping human civilizationWhat if you could hear the history of the world through a bronze bell buried deep in the ground? Or a fine, old terra-cotta pot? Or a long, hollow strip of a mammoth's tusk?
In Sound Tracks, Graeme Lawson explores our rich and ancient history of music-making through sixty musical objects and the thrilling accounts of the archaeological digs in which they were discovered. We stumble upon a German harmonica found on a 19th century American battlefield, a 1,300-year-old Peruvian flask designed to warble like a bird, a Stone Age flute calcified within the unlikely depths of a cave in Southwestern France-all the while unearthing the vibrant worlds of the people that once made music and meaning with them.
One of the world's foremost archaeologists, Lawson leaves no stone unturned, ushering the reader from the present day all the...
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