Music Archaeology of the Americas

Published in: Amerindian Research, Band 5/3 2010, Nr. 17, pp. 157-160.
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Published in: the world of music, vol 51(1) - 2009, Music and Sustainability, pp. 144-146.

Guest edited with Don Niles. The Music Archaeology section includes among others a paper by Sarah B. Barber, Gonzalo Sánchez, and Mireya Olvera (Sounds of Death and Life in Mesoamerica: The Bone Flutes of Ancient Oaxaca).

Published in: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 41 (2009), 1-11.

Published on Ian Mursell’s AZTECS at Mexicolore, January 2009.

Published in: Arqueología Mexicana, vol. XVI, núm. 94, México 2008, pp. 30-39. The electronic version can be accessed here.

Papers from the 5th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology at the Ethnological Museum Berlin, 19-23 September, 2006. Edited by Arnd Adje Both/Ricardo Eichmann/Ellen Hickmann/Lars-Christian Koch. Rahden/Westf. 2008. With contributions from Paul F. Healy/Vanessa Rodens (Ancient Maya Sound Artefacts of Pacbitun, Belize), Anna Gruszcynska-Ziolkowska (The Musical Order of the Universe: Myths in the Huarochirí Tradition), José Perez de Arce (SON IDO), Susan Rawcliffe (Entrancing Sounds: Difference Tones in Pre-Hispanic Double Flutes), Friedemann Schmidt (The Clay Trumpets of the Moche Culture in the Ethnological Museum Berlin), Roberto Velázquez Cabrera (Ancient Aerophones with Mirliton), Rosa Martínez Navarro/Victor Falcón Huayta (Conservation and Restoration of a Prehispanic Drum from the Coast of Peru), Carole Fraresso (Symbolic Sounds and Technical Characteristics of Moche Rattles from Huaca de la Luna Burials, Peru A.D. 300-400), Mark Howell (An Acoustic Analysis of La Salle’s Trading Bells), Claudio Mercado Munoz (Chineando in Time: An Experience in Musical Ethnoarchaeology), Matthias Stöckli (Music Making in a Pre-Hispanic Perspective in Contemporary Guatemala), and Arnd Adje Both (3D-Computed Tomography and Computational Fluid Dynamics: Perspectives in the Contactless Organological and Acoustical Research of Ancient Musical Instruments).

Published in: A. A. Both/R. Eichmann/E. Hickmann/L.-Chr. Koch (eds.), Studies in Music Archaeology VI: Challenges and Objectives in Music Archaeology. Rahden/Westf. 2008.
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Papers from the 1st meeting of the Music Archaeology Study Group of the ICTM, Los Angeles, 25-27 April, 2003. Edited by Max Peter Baumann/Jonathan P. Stock/Arnd Adje Both/Julia L. J. Sanchez. With contributions from Dale A. Olsen (The Complexity and Interdisciplinarity of Archaeomusicology), Matthias Stöckli (Playing Music as a Domestic Activity? Interpretations of the Finds of Sound-producing Artifacts at Aguateca, El Petén, Guatemala), Julia L. J. Sanchez (Procession and Performance: Recreating Ritual Soundscapes Among the Ancient Maya), Susan Rawcliffe (Eight West Mexican Flutes in the Fowler Museum), Gonzalo Sánchez Santiago (An Introduction to the Music Cultures of Ancient Oaxaca: Sound Artifacts in the Archaeological Record), Ángel Agustín Pimentel Díaz (Music Iconography of the Codex Nuttall), Mark Howell (Possible Prehispanic Music Survivals in the Rab’inal Achi), and Arnd Adje Both (Aztec Music Culture).

Published in: the world of music, vol. 49(2), 2007, Music Archaeology: Mesoamerica, pp. 91-104.
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