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Bone Music: How Banned Western Music in the Soviet Union Was Printed on Repurposed X-Ray Records

From an interview with author Anya von Bremzen via NPR: “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole. You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan—forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”