LAUNCH EVENT: BONE MUSIC
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade, London
WC1N 1JD
Tuesday, 1st November
Doors 7pm
Hi There,
Please join us for the launch of Stephen Coates' Bone
Music at the
href="https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/bonemusic">Horse Hospital, London,
Tuesday November 1st at 7pm.
Author Stephen Coates will give an illustrated talk about his research and
discoveries, and sign copies sold on the night.
Special Hardback Edition copies and Standard Paperbacks will be available at
launch discount prices.
href="https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/bone-music/">COPIES OF
BONE MUSIC ARE AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE.
All the best,
Jamie & Mark
“There were two types of culture… Official culture and
underground culture. I was always for underground
culture.”
- Rudy Fuchs, Bone cutter and
collector
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.
Who were they? Why did they do it and how was it
even possible? Based on years of interviews and oral testimonies, Bone Music
continues the story of X-Ray Audio, presenting the stories of the original Bone
bootleggers, their customers and persecutors, evoking their spirit of resistance
to a repressive culture of prohibition and punishment.
Bone Music details how the bootleggers worked,
explains their technical processes, and situates their unique discs in a revised
history of recorded media with a wealth of compelling new detail.
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