Sound Tracks av Graeme Lawson

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<p><i>In Search of Lost Music</i> tells the archaeological history of music and mankind''s relationship with music, for the first time. Full of passion, intrigue, and astonishing insights, <i>In Search of Lost Music</i> is an enthralling alternative history of humanity in which the silences of the past are filled with a new and wonderful treasure hoard of sounds and voices.<br><br>Told through 60 fascinating individual microhistories that read like detective stories - made up of fragments of instruments recovered from digs and under the sea, and the long-lost music itself reconstructed using visual clues and the most up-to-date technology - Graeme Lawson takes us on a grand tour of the world''s greatest musical discoveries. Beginning with online streaming and popular music festivals, Lawson works backwards through time to the very origins of music and humankind itself.<br><br>Music is integral to who and what we are<i>. </i>But what is music, really? Why do we love it and depend on it?