Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audioby Stephen Coates (Editor) Stories of the secret underground Cold Warera Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x rays. During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to were ruthlessly controlled by the state. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censors, building recording machines and making their own records of forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll, and