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Ribs (recordings)
Ribs (Russian: «рёбра», translit. ryobra), also being called Music on ribs (Russian: «Музыка на рёбрах»), Jazz on bones (Russian: «Джаз на костях»), are slang names for x-ray shots, mostly a fluorography ones, turned into improvised gramophone recordings. These were a black market method of smuggling in and distributing music by foreign musicians who were banned from broadcasting in the USSR. Actual medical X-Rays, purchased from hospitals and clinics, were used for the technology; the X-Rays were cut into the shape of records. According to Russian musicologist Artemy Troitsky, "grooves were cut with the help of special machines (made, they say, from old phonographs by skilled conspiratorial hands)"; he added that the "quality was awful, but the price was low, a ruble or a ruble and a half."[1]
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Music censorship and tabooism in Soviet Union
| Name | Reason (official) |
|---|---|
| KISS | neo-fascism, punk, violence |
| Iron Maiden | violence, religious obscurantism |
| Black Sabbath | violence, religious obscurantism |
| Styx | violence, vandalism |
| Sparks | neo-fascism, racism |
| The Originals | sex |
| 10cc | neo-fascism |
| Nazareth | violence, religious mysticism, sadism |
| Pink Floyd | misrepresentation of Soviet foreign policy |
| Julio Iglesias | neo-fascism |
| Van Halen | anti-Soviet propaganda |
| Village People | violence |
| Tina Turner | sex |
| Donna Summer | erotism |
See also
References
- ^ Easton, Paul (1989) "The Rock Music Community" in Riordan, James Soviet youth culture 2 Basingstoke: Macmillan p. 47 ISBN 0-333-46231-9 OCLC 246807650Available at University of Indiana
- ^ Pryazhinskaya, E., ed. (January 10, 1985) (in Russian) (Memo) List of foreign music bands and performers, whose works consist of ideologically harmful notions Nikolaev, USSR: Obkom VLKSM http://forever-rock.narod.ru/others/dirty_list.jpg
Further reading
- Yurchak, Alexei (1999) "Gagarin and the Rave Kids" in Barker, Adele Marie Consuming Russia: popular culture, sex, and society since Gorbachev Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press p. 82 ISBN 0-8223-2313-3, 978-0-82-232313-6 OCLC 185952345 http://books.google.de/books?id=MqcwpT_AGSsC&printsec=frontcover&hl=ru#v=onepage&q&f=false
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