My Cantopop Nights

A Memoir in Songs

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'</b>Captures that era of Hong Kong music with such warmth and clarity... Transcendent and transportive' <b>Angela Hui</b><br><br>'A wondrous thing: fresh, evocative, self-aware, fantastically light of touch and wholly original' <b>Sarah Howe</b><br><br><b>A story of music, fandom and identity, from the acclaimed singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss (a.k.a. Emmy the Great)</b><br><br>For 11-year-old Emma-Lee, the sound of Hong Kong in the summer of 1995 is Cantopop. The Cantopop stars she idolises are everywhere - their images are on every billboard and their music spills from shop speakers onto the streets. When she and her family move to England later that year, Emma-Lee's love of Cantopop will be pushed underground - the sound and symbol of her secret childhood identity.<br><br><i>My Cantopop Nights </i>is the story of how Emma-Lee found herself in a Hong Kong bar twenty years later, listening to a Cantopop song and realising that this music was her inheritance. It's about suffering an identity crisis just as the city's post-colonial tensions erupt into protests. It's a story of uncanny coincidences, magical thinking and a quest to reconcile the different sides of her heritage: Hong Konger and British, Cantopop and indie.<br><br><b>It's a story of falling in love with a city, its people and its music, while trying to find your own place to belong.</b><br><br>'An author of exceptional vision... for anyone seeking to understand how complicated, tender histories unfurl in our present - and how art emerges to help us through'<b> Jessica J. Lee</b><br><br>'Prepare to meet your new favourite playlist' <b>Dan Schreiber</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781787334540

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

222 x 145 x 36 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd