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   Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio | Paperback   
   Stephen Coates   
   MIT Press | Strange Attractor Press   
   Music / History & Criticism / History / Russia / Art / Russian & Soviet   
   Published Jan 10, 2023   
      
   During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to were   
   ruthlessly controlled by the state. But a secret underground subculture of   
   music lovers and bootleggers defied the censors, building recording machines   
   and making their own records of forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll, and Russian   
   music, cut onto used hospital x-ray film. Bone Music is the follow up the   
   acclaimed X-Ray Audio: The Strange History of Soviet Music on the Bone,   
   delving deeper into a forgotten era when being a music fan could mean a   
   lengthy prison sentence, or worse.   
       
   Who made these records? Why did they do it and how was it even possible?   
   Foregrounding interviews and oral testimonies gathered over five years, Bone   
   Music presents the stories of the original bone bootleggers, their customers,   
   musicians, record collectors, and commentators, evoking a spirited resistance   
   to a repressive culture of prohibition and punishment. It reveals that   
   although Western jazz and rock?n?roll were important to the Stilyagi youth   
   culture, the true rebel music was that of forbidden Russian emigres, gypsy   
   romances, and criminal tunes: the soul songs of a society brutally cut off   
   from its culture.   
       
   Richly illustrated with dozens of new images of Soviet x-ray discs and sound   
   letters, Bone Music details how the bootleggers worked, outlining the   
   technical precedents of their techniques, situating their discs in a revised   
   history of recorded media, and bringing a wealth of compelling new detail.   
       
      
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