Sound tracks : uncovering our musical past /

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Includes index.Prologue: the present and remembered past -- The archaeology of familiar things : the nineteenth to the seventeenth century -- Of ships and the sea : the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries -- Residues of medieval lives : the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Divided world : the fourteenth to the twelfth century -- Early medieval minds : the twelfth to the eighth century -- Light in an age of darkness : the eighth to the fifth century -- Empires east and west : the fifth to the first century -- Age of iron : the first century AD to the fifth century BC -- Age of bronze : the sixth to the fourteenth century BC -- Dawn of civilisation : 1400 to 5000 BC -- Journey's end : 7,000 to 38,000 years ago -- Beyond the horizon : 40,000 to 4 million years ago -- Epilogue: the future of music's present.Here is the history of humankind's relationship with music in fifty detective stories. Sound Tracks is a transporting and extraordinary voyage of discovery, each chapter a time-machine focusing on musical finds uncovered in archaeological digs around the world. From the present day all the way back to the dawn of time; from dark caves, murky swamps and open deserts to rivers, oceans and the depths of the earth, we can now hear the past release its musical secrets. As we enter the sound worlds of those who knew them, we rediscover long-lost musical experiences. On this grand tour through some of the world's greatest musical discoveries, we learn that music is part of what makes us human - not just as a pastime or religious expression but as a way of commemorating our pasts, communicating with each other, and shaping our lives. Brimming with astonishing insights, Sound Tracks provides an enthralling alternative history of humanity in which the silences of the past are filled with a treasure hoard of vanished sounds and voices. As if by magic, we find ourselves eavesdropping on lost music across the centuries.