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

Exhibition details

Curation

Stephen Coates, Paul Heartfield
Curators in charge: Meira Yagid-Haimovici, Maya Vinitsky

Date

11/1/18-2/5/18

Location

Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Wing for Architecture and Design, Galleries 1 & 2
Herta and Paul Amir Building

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.

Black Eyes, X-Ray Audio, Late 1950s

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Tom Wesselmann: All Out / From the Marie and Jose Mugrabi Collection

Vision of the New Bones: Jewish Imaginations after 1940

Ilana Dotan: Shelf Life

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