My Cantopop Nights
A Memoir in Songs
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Product details:
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Date of Publication 11 June 2026
- ISBN 9781787334540
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 225x146x33 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
'Captures that era of Hong Kong music with such warmth and clarity... Transcendent and transportive' Angela Hui
---A wondrous thing: fresh, evocative, self-aware, fantastically light of touch and wholly original--- Sarah Howe
A story of music, fandom and identity, from the acclaimed singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss (a.k.a. Emmy the Great)
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.
My Cantopop Nights 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.
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.
---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--- Jessica J. Lee
'Prepare to meet your new favourite playlist' Dan Schreiber
