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Apr
24
2015

The Racial Formations of Soviet "Rock on the Bones"

When: Friday, April 24, 2015
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT

Where: Congdon Schaffer Mansion, 405 Church Street, Evanston, 60201

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Nancy Ferguson   (847) 467-7854

Group: Master of Arts in Creative Writing

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

This talk is drawn from Cold War Hot Kitchen, and it examines the phenomenon of “rock on the bones” – vinyl records printed on discarded X-ray films—during the mid-Soviet period in order to rethink cultural narratives of opposition between the West and the East during the Cold War. Baldwin discusses this fascinating mode of transmitting western music into the Soviet Union, in order to complicate the idea that the fall of the Soviet Union depended upon the lure of Western consumer culture.

Given by Professor Kate Baldwin. Refreshments will be served at 6 pm, and the program will begin at 7.

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