In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon.

Some places are very strict when it comes to the power of music, and they are quick to ban anything that they think could ...

So you had the first inklings of free enterprise that the Soviet Union worked hard to ensure its music industry did not have. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) POPOV: (Through interpreter) When we started in ...

In the decade after World War II, the communist Soviet Union officially banned rock, jazz, and blues music. But people made bootleg versions of that music — recorded onto thin sheets of X-ray film.

Forty years ago in the Soviet Union, a group of underground musicians opened a venue where they and their friends could perform. The Leningrad Rock Club remains a legend of Russian counterculture.

On Dec. 17, 2024, a post on X showed a photo, purportedly from 1985, that listed Western musical acts allegedly banned in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The circulated list ...

The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, with Synthesizing the Silk Roads offering a relic from this perhaps unlikely moment in music history. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up ...

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades. Search Query Show Search. TEXAS NEWS.

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades. Search Query Show Search. News. All Things Considered; ...

And this, by the 1980s, was pumping out around 200 million vinyl records just within the Soviet Union. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EISENBERG: With the death of Stalin, ...