Explores the role of drums, rattles, and gongs in human societies revealing the primal hypnotic power of these instruments

Details a ten-year period during which Mickey Hart, drummer for the Grateful Dead, dedicated his life to an intense study of the origins, myths, history, and sp

For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer

Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion