Moving Music: The Memoirs of Rikki Stein (2024)

Wordville Books (book, memoir, biography), 2024.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.875", 290 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-7391030-9-5.

Moving Music: The Memoirs of Rikki Stein, as published by Wordville Books in 2024. An autobiography of Rikki Stein's life in music.

This is a good source of biographical information on the relationships between Brion Gysin, Mohammed Hamri, and Joujouka. 

Although there are only a few direct references to William S. Burroughs noted in this book's index (and a photograph of Burroughs with Gysin and Ornette Coleman), the context on Tangier, Joujouka, Hamri, and Gysin is very informative.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• Introduction:
• Chapter One: "Early Days"
• Chapter Two: "Continental Drift"
• Chapter Three: "Enter the Muse"
• Chapter Four: "Land of the Free"
• Chapter Five: "San Francisco"
• Chapter Six: "Out and About"
• Chapter Seven: "From Europe to Africa"
• Chapter Eight: "Joujouka"
• Chapter Nine: "Figuring It Out"
• Chapter Ten: "On the Road"
• Chapter Eleven: "Glastonbury Tales"
• Chapter Twelve: "Welcome to Nigeria"
• Chapter Thirteen: "Fela on the Road"
• Chapter Fourteen: "Onward and Upward"
• Chapter Fifteen: "Les Ballets Africains"
• Chapter Sixteen: "The Nineties"
• Chapter Seventeen: "Sacred Monsters"
• Chapter Eighteen: "Taking Fela to Broadway"
• Chapter Nineteen: "Challenging Times"
• Chapter Twenty: "Legacy"
• Chapter Twenty-One: "Kingdom Come"
• Chapter Twenty-Two: "Wrapping Up"
• Index