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    From Aug@2:221/1.59 to All on Mon Mar 6 08:17:28 2023
    Hi All...

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    * From: August Abolins, 2:221/1.59 (06 Mar. 2023 00:15)
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    * Subject: book: bone music ============================================================
    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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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AUG on Mon Mar 6 16:10:00 2023
    During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to were

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    their own records of forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll, and Russian music, cut
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    used hospital x-ray film.

    Well, I'll be. I have never heard of that but it sounds like an
    interesting way to do it. I'd have never thought of it.

    Mike


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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Mike Powell on Mon Mar 6 18:32:00 2023
    Hello Mike!

    AA >> bootleggers defied the censors, building recording
    >> machines and akin their own records of forbidden jazz,
    >> rock 'n' roll, and Russian music, cut nt used hospital x-
    >> ray film.

    Well, I'll be. I have never heard of that but it sounds
    like an interesting way to do it. I'd have never thought
    of it.

    Apparently, the recordings could only be played a handful of
    times before they deteriorated.

    The story reminded me of the recording samples that were
    sometimes inserted into magazines, albiet on more durable
    vinyl.

    But good on the people to defy what their gov't told them what
    they could and couldn't listen to. The part about how the
    actual cutting took place and the time and patience to make
    copy after copy.. amazing.
    --
    ../|ug

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