Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and TaiwaniUniverse, 2006 - 197 sivua 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 Chinesefrequently 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 Reas musical adventures with an insiders look at Chinas emergent rock music phenomenon, richly descriptive tales of travels in Chinas 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 worldshaking events at Tiananmen Square. The adventures of an accidental musical ambassador...[Rea's] thoroughly engaging chronicle takes readers from his first hour in the country, when a taxi driver backed over his guitar, through his almost five years living and traveling in China and Taiwan...Throughout, Rea employs an agreeably self-deprecating tone and exhibits a musicians ear for euphony and rhythm. Vivid and informative, expressing appreciation grounded in experience. -Kirkus Discoveries |
Sisältö
Prologue Stranger in a Strange Band | 1 |
Chengdu Rundown | 3 |
Anguish as a Second Language | 9 |
Anatomy of a Guitarist | 17 |
Sichuan Blues | 22 |
The Great Wall of Sound | 28 |
Red Scar over China | 36 |
The Banana Pancake Trail | 48 |
Identity Crisis in Beijing | 108 |
Banished Souls | 118 |
The Feelmore East | 126 |
The Vagaries of Touring China | 132 |
The Power of Rock and Roll | 144 |
Taiwannabes | 156 |
The Other Foot | 168 |
Epilogue Innocence Lost | 176 |
Pandasonic | 62 |
We Wish You Happy | 71 |
Aint Nothin but a Hongbao | 77 |
Shadow in Dreams | 85 |
The Gang of Formosa | 88 |
Cui Jian | 100 |
Acknowledgements | 183 |
Tour Dates | 185 |
Bibliography | 189 |
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About the Author | 195 |
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Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan Dennis Rea Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2006 |
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