It was twenty years ago today….
PopMatters.com has been celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nevermind, and, well, 1991 generally. Yours truly chipped in with a look back at where China was at as the world went ga-ga for grunge.
Ramblings on YAOGUN, Chinese rock music, by the author of Red Rock: The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll
It was twenty years ago today….
PopMatters.com has been celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nevermind, and, well, 1991 generally. Yours truly chipped in with a look back at where China was at as the world went ga-ga for grunge.
It’s not just Red Rock: The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll season. It’s also new content at jonathanWcampbell.com season, as well as high time I lead you to some jWc/Red Rock news Out There on the world-wide interweb.
First, at “home”: You’ll find a new section at jWc.com: RED ROCK: THE BONUS TRACKS. Unlike Red Rock: The Liner Notes, which give more footnote-type illuminations on the text of the book, the Bonus Tracks bring elucidations of a multi-media kind. I’m time-releasing these bad-boys, to let you do some reading before you dive deep beyond Red Rock‘s pages. Oddly enough, I’ve opted to start with Chapter 1.
Next, “Out There”, where word is slowly starting to spread:
The Library Journal said very nice things about Red Rock. Read those things here.
The China-based Global Times newspaper ran a story about yours truly and Red Rock. That story is here. A companion piece on yaogun’s journey is here.
PopMatters.com published an excerpt of Red Rock‘s first chapter.
Not long ago,the Taipei Times ran a lukewarm review of Red Rock. The same author wrote a warmer review for the South China Morning Post, which is behind a paywall.
I appeared on web-tv channel That Channel’s Liquid Lunch in late September. You can see the video of the entire episode here.
The Beijinger, an English-language events magazine, ran a profile in their tenth anniversary issue, viewable online here.
As previously mentioned, Time Out (Beijing) asked me to chart Five Major Moments on yaogun’s path.
And don’t forget: Red Rock is available via Amazon:
The good people at PopMatters.com have published an excerpt of Red Rock: The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll. They’ve published the first chapter, Chapter One:
When you’re done, spread the word, head to jWc.com and click on the “buy it on Amazon” link, or get to your nearest purveyor of books and track it down.