Songs of the stones: An Investigation into the acoustic culture of stonehenge

IASPM Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-18

  Till, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Music; Popular Music; Prehistory; RItual; Solstice; Sound; Stonehenge

Indexed keywords

EID: 85093877632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20793871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2010)v1i2.10en     Document Type: Article

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