Live at the Forbidden City
Live at the Forbidden City
This came through my inbox today from a musician friend who had a very cool gig at the Living Room a while back. Damn, so much for that book idea.
Dear friends and interested parties,
I'm pleased to announce that, at long last, my book Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan has been published and is now available for purchase online at iUniverse Online Bookstore.
The book is initially available through my publisher, iUniverse, and within 4-6 weeks will also be available through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Books-A-Million.com, and other major online booksellers. It can also be ordered by any bookstore through the Ingram Book Group and Baker & Taylor wholesale distribution channels. Please spread the word to anyone you might know who has an interest in world music, Chinese and Asian culture, or travel writing ¡V thanks! I'll be setting up several author events in the Pacific Northwest (local residents will receive details) and hopefully in other regions as well.
See below for a brief description of the book; for more information, please visit www.dennisrea.com/forbidden.html
Many thanks for your interest, and to many of you for helping to make
this a reality!
Dennis
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"Live at the Forbidden City offers a singular look at the rapidly evolving Chinese popular music scene, as seen through the eyes of one of the first progressive Western musicians to perform extensively in both China and Taiwan.
"In the 1980s and 90s, American author and musician Dennis Rea was an unofficial musical ambassador to the East, playing concerts in venues ranging from sports arenas to illicit underground nightclubs to TV broadcasts viewed by millions of Chinese -- frequently under bizarre circumstances and the constant threat of harassment by Communist Party authorities. Spiced with informative reflections on Chinese music and culture, Live at the Forbidden City interweaves vivid, often comical depictions of Rea's musical adventures with an insider's look at China's emergent rock music phenomenon, richly descriptive tales of travels in China's ethnic minority regions, and an eyewitness account of the violent civil uprising that broke out in the city of Chengdu at the same time as the world-shaking events at Tiananmen Square."
"Live at the Forbidden City is at once a witty and engaging memoir of an adventurous musical life, and a unique document of an unprecedented era of political tumult and cultural transformation in China" ¡X Andrew F. Jones, author, Like a Knife and Yellow Music
I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
