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 — which ...

During the harshest days of Soviet censorship, it was nearly impossible — and also very risky — to get a hold of Western music. But people in the Soviet Union became experts at devising creative, ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...

An archival label in the United States was going to release a huge compilation of records from the U.S.S.R. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. By Grayson Haver Currin Eugene Hutz still owns his copy of ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions. Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of ...

MUSCAT: The National Museum concluded its 2025 series of six musical evenings, organised in collaboration with the Rosconcert Music Foundation and ...