{"product_id":"9781787334540","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW My Cantopop Nights : A Memoir in Songs by Emma-Lee Moss","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 11\/06\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaptures 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 HoweA 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 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369161535861,"sku":"9781787334540","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781787334540.jpg?v=1774539169","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781787334540","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}