By The Bureau of Lost culture
In the USSR during the cold war era, the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the State. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censor. Incredibly, they built their own recording machines and used an extraordinary means of copying forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll and banned Russian music to risk making their own records.
Listen to their story in our BBC documentary BONE MUSIC
EXPLORE our online archive with images and sounds of original Bone Records
Or our BONE BLOG on the culture of x-ray recording.
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