Bones

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Time for a #musichistory lesson! This year for my birthday, I hopped on EBay treated myself to something that I’ve been fascinated by since I first learned about it from Terri Hemmert’s on @93xrt . Back in the USSR in the 1950’s and ‘60’s when vinyl was hard to come by and the possession and distribution of Western art was illegal, Soviet dissenters would make and distribute recordings of Western music on discarded X-Ray films, known as ‘Ribs’ or ‘Bones Music’. The albums weren’t the best quality (as you can hear in my video) and were only really good for a few plays, but it’s how music by artists such as The Beatles, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald, who embodied Rock and Roll and Jazz, infiltrated the Soviet Union and allowed folks to connect to a society and set of ideas outside of the oppressive system in which they were living. . . . . . . #music #musichistory #bones #ribs #ryoba #xray #ussr #sovietunion #Ninasimone #TheBeatles #lp #recordcollection #centralparkblues

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