OUT NOW: BONE MUSIC

Hello There,

We're thrilled to announce that Bone Music by Stephen Coates has returned from the printers and will be shipping immediately, in both hardback special and paperback editions. 

ORDERS CAN BE PLACED HERE!

The limited special edition hardback (designed by Tihana Šare), ships with an exclusive risograph print (produced for us by the brilliant Camp Books), and a 7″ flexidisc of original 1930s Soviet-era music taken “off the bone” (Hungarian jazz and a Russian ballad).

There are still a few copies of the special edition left, so please do order soon if you'd like a copy to avoid disappointment!

All the best,

Jamie & Mark

 

Bone Music by Stephen Coates

230mm x 230mm
HB/PB, 156pp
ISBN: 9781907222476
32 pages of colour images, heavily illustrated throughout

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.