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Sound Tracks - The New History of Our Musical Past (Hardcover)
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Sound Tracks - The New History of Our Musical Past (Hardcover)
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Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in 60
detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical
instrument in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from
the present day back to the dawn of time, long-lost music is here
reconstructed as we enter the worlds of its makers. We feel a
child's delight at playing with a water-filled pot that chirps like
a bird in Peru in 700 AD; we appreciate the challenge of a soldier
sending signals by trumpet along Hadrian's Wall; we hear the
chiming of 64 bells buried in a tomb in 5th century China. Graeme
Lawson leads us on a grand tour of the world's greatest musical
discoveries, revealing that music is part of our DNA - not just in
its role as pastime, entertainment or religious expression but also
in how we commemorate our pasts and communicate with each other. It
shapes all our lives and identities. Filling past silences with a
treasure hoard of forgotten sounds and voices, Sound Tracks is an
enthralling, astonishing alternative history of humanity.
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