Bone collectors

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3051, 2015, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People could say Soviet-era hipsters had music in their bones. Ghostly bootleg records made from repurposed X-ray plates offer a glimpse into the counterculture movement whose members were prepared to risk imprisonment for rock n' roll. Music was strictly censored in the USSR. Only classical or patriotic tunes were deemed ideologically acceptable--they could be arrested for listening to Western music or even traditional folk tunes. But in the 1950s, a handful of music fans in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) began to defy the state. Before long, an underground cottage industry in home-made records had sprung up. Here, Wilson presents several photographs by Paul Heartfield showing the bone design disc.