Forbidden Music: X-Ray Audio in the USSR, 1946-1964

Between the 1940s and the 1960s, music lovers in the USSR illegally reproduced popular records of censored music—jazz and Western rock n' roll, immigrant music and prisoners’ songs—copying them onto hospital X-ray transparencies. In addition to these, the exhibition also features recent films that examine the relations of music, censorship and cultural freedom—in the USSR as well as in Mali, Cambodia, Iran and the Middle East.