Sounds Beyond-charts the origins of Arvo Pärt-s most famous music, which was-created in dialogue with-underground creative-circles-in-the USSR.-In-Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes-studies-the interconnected-alternative-music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s,-revealing-the audacious origins of some of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt-s most famous music.-Karnes shows how Pärt-s work-was created-within-a vital yet forgotten culture of collective experimentation,-the Soviet-underground.--Mining archives and oral history from across the former USSR,-Sounds Beyond-carefully situates modes of-creative-experimentation-within their-late socialist contexts.-In documenting Pärt-s work, Karnes reveals-the-rich creative culture-that-thrived covertly-in the-USSR-and-the network of-figures-that made underground performances possible: students, audio engineers,-sympathetic administrators, star performers, and aspiring DJs.-Sounds Beyond-advances a-new understanding of Pärt-s mu
