From pre-Columbian Mayans and the early explorations by Europeans in 1502 through colonialism, internal struggles, communism, outside intervention, and international intrigue to the end of the Guatemalan civil war in 1996, this program -- part of the Central America today series -- chronicles the turbulent history of the region using location footage, archival images, maps and newsreels, all tied together with prosaic voice-over narration and appropriate background music.
Before the 1960s, most archaeologists perceived of the dense eastern slope forests as a barrier to interregional communication, virtually empty of of pre-Columbian population.
And then there's the Indonesian elephant puppet near the main staircase, not to mention the pre-Columbian masks at the registration desk and two carved wooden deer on the stair landings.
The title explains the subject matter well--this is an attempt to document music in pre-Columbian societies on the widest possible franchise in what is now Colombia.
Before describing the contents of this well-designed and informative publication, which served as an exhibition catalogue on two occasions and is lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white images by the renowned photographer of pre-Columbian objects Justin Kerr, I must admit to a dualistic reaction to catalogues of recently acquired objects of antiquity from abroad.
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