Graeme Lawson

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens—the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage. Wonderfully engaging, expansive, and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in sixty detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument—or its fragments—in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from the present day—finding a 100-year-old...

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens—the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories. 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...