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Emma-Lee Moss is a writer and musician. As a writer, Emma-Lee has contributed to the Guardian, Vice, i-D, British GQ, Wired, the Good Journal and more. As a singer-songwriter performing under the name Emmy the Great, she released four studio albums, as well as several collaborations and soundtracks. She writes original songs for film, theatre, television, radio and community projects, and is interested in the way that songs interact with our everyday lives. My Cantopop Nights is her first book. She lives in East Sussex.
One of my favourite musicians on some of her favourite musicians. A beautiful meditation on how belonging is something we create day by day, year by year. -- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Tracing her own life and career alongside the Hong Kong music scene, Moss emerges here as an author of exceptional vision. In My Cantopop Nights, the personal is entwined with the political, and understanding the self means holding close the places and people that make us. This is a book not simply for those who love Moss’s music, but for anyone seeking to understand how complicated, tender histories unfurl in our present—and how art emerges to help us through. -- Jessica J. Lee An incredibly honest and personal memoir that talks about something universal - finding friendship, understanding family, creating an identity in a world that's messy, layered, and complex -- Dan Thompson A captivating memoir-meets-cultural history that blends a modern history of Cantopop with Emma’s own personal journey to reconcile with her identity and Chinese heritage. It manages to blend the understated intimacy of personal memory with a compelling and insightful overview of Hong Kong as a site of cultural clash. I was captivated from start to finish and left feeling both moved and more knowledgeable. -- Catherine Anne Davies My Cantopop Nights is a wondrous thing: fresh, evocative, self-aware, fantastically light of touch, and wholly original. Moss’s writing rings out like a sung note, layered with memory and suggestion. In this diasporic quest unlike any other, an artist gradually realises she’s put half of herself away in a drawer in order to survive: it’s the half-remembered soundtrack of her Hong Kong childhood, refusing to stay locked away, that leads her back. I read it in one headlong, heartsore sweep -- Sarah Howe My Cantopop Nights brilliantly captures the sweet sorrow of lost places and lost time. It's a chance to time-travel in vivid sound and colour through Emma-Lee Moss's memories to '80s Hong Kong and back. I loved it. -- Becky Barnicoat
