{"product_id":"9780986060069","title":"Composing Temple Sunrise: Overcoming Writer's Block at Burning Man","description":"This is a memoir by musician Hassan El-Tayyab and recounts his trip across the US looking for that elusive muse. He arrives in Berkeley and hooks up with a group creating a metal sculpture called Fishbug. They go to Burning Man in the Nevada dessert and here he writes the musical piece Temple Sunrise. Hassan is a musician singer\/songwriter with his group America Nomad. This is a book of travel, personal exploration, community, and that elusive finding of the creative source. A beautiful song comes of this journey as well as a beautiful, insightful book. \u003cbr\u003eHassan El-Tayyab is an award-winning singer\/songwriter, author, teacher, and cultural activist currently residing in San Francisco, California. His critically-acclaimed Americana act American Nomad performs regularly at festivals and venues up and down the West Coast and beyond. In addition to performing Hassan is also a music educator, having taught songwriting and guitar classes for the Freight and Salvage and The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. Hassan has also been a guest lecturer on song writing at the University of California, Berkeley.","brand":"Poetic Matrix Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013944590576,"sku":"9780986060069","price":18.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986060069_p0.jpg?v=1763889759","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986060069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}