| Book Review | Journal of World History, 14.3

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Book Review

Hearing the Past: Essays in Historical Ethnomusicology and the Archaeology of Sound. Edited by ANN BUCKLEY. Belgium: Études et Recherches Archéologiques de L'Université de Liège,1998. 251 pp.

This book is the result of a conference held in 1991 at Darwin College, Cambridge, U.K., on comparative approaches to the archaeology of music and of sound making, especially in those cases where musical sounds or notation were either never made or may not have survived. As a result, for most of human history archaeologists of music have to rely on circumstantial evidence.	1
In the introduction, Ann Buckley discusses some of the possibilities and limitations of the archaeology of music. In her approach, music making has always taken place within certain social contexts that we should therefore seek to reconstruct. Archaeologists of music should follow the example set by established archaeologists, who try to understand ancient societies solely on the basis of material artifacts.	2
Next, a number of case studies is presented. In the first article, Cajsa Lund discusses some of above themes within the context of Scandinavian archaeology, while using the example of a recently found bull-roarer—if that is what it really was.	3
Catherine Homo-Lechner next presents an overview of the great many problems encountered during the past two centuries while attempting to reconstruct European musical instruments and sounds with the aid of archeological relics, ancient texts, and pictures.	. . .

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