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Bone Music: How Banned Western Music in the Soviet Union Was Printed on Repurposed X-Ray Records

December 31, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Christopher Jobson writes:

Desperate times called for desperate measures. With the aid of a special device, people started pressing banned jazz and rock n’ roll music on thick radiographs scavenged from the dumpsters of hospitals. X-rays were plentiful (not to mention cheap), and while the records could only be pressed on a single side, the music they produced using a standard turntable was passable. The recordings even had a catchy name: bone music.

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