During the harshest days of Soviet censorship, it was nearly impossible — and also very risky — to get a hold of Western music. But people in the Soviet Union became experts at devising creative, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the Soviet Union, some clever people realized that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched by a sound recording device.

Example of an x-ray record (all photos courtesy X-Ray Audio Project/Paul Heartfield) Several years ago, while poking around a flea market in St. Petersburg, musician Stephen Coates came across a ...

In Cold War Russia, getting your hands on an American rock record was close to impossible. But a few bootleggers found a way to hide their... Western music may have been changing the world in the ...

A well-connected dealer in the Cold War Soviet Union could get an enterprising music fan some of the good stuff — American jazz, pop and early rock 'n' roll — for the right price. At a time when ...

When Western Electric invented electrical sound recording 100 years ago, it completely transformed the public’s relationship to music. Before then, recording was done mechanically, scratching sound ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When Western Electric invented electrical sound recording 100 years ago, it completely transformed the public’s relationship to music. Before then, recording was done mechanically, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard Gunderman, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) When Western Electric ...