{"id":39489,"date":"2014-06-23T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39489"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:48:45","slug":"x-ray-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/39489","title":{"rendered":"X-ray records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39490\" alt=\"X-ray records\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xray_record.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xray_record.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xray_record-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xray_record-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xray_record-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll records were &#8220;pressed&#8221; on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,&#8221; says author Anya von Bremzen. &#8220;You\u2019d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha\u2019s brain scan \u2014 forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Junk Culture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.junk-culture.com\/2014\/06\/soviet-era-bootleg-recordings-of-banned.html\" target=\"_blank\">Junk Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll records were &#8220;pressed&#8221; on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39492,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489\/revisions\/39492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}