Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
Society & Culture
LNL Summer: The bootlegged x-ray records of the USSR
Stephen Coates reveals how a secret underground subculture of music lovers defied the censors in Cold War-era USSR, recording forbidden music onto old x-rays.
Guest:
Stephen Coates - composer, writer and music producer. Author of Bone Music (published by Strange Attractor / MIT Press)
Check out the X-ray Audio Project here
Music credits:
St Louis Blues - Unknown (courtesy of Atila Csanyi)
Emigre Tango - singer Serge Nikolsky (courtesy of Nikolai Rechetnik)
All other tracks courtesy of Stephen Coates
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