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When Elvis and Ella were pressed onto X-rays – the subversive legacy of Soviet ‘bone music’

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
When Elvis and Ella were pressed onto X-rays – the subversive legacy of Soviet ‘bone music’In the Soviet Union, some clever people realized that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched by a sound recording device.Michelle Mengsu Chang/Toronto Star via Getty Images

When Western Electric invented electrical sound recording 100 years ago, it completely transformed the public’s relationship to music.

Before then, recording was...

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