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This product is a Pre Order and is scheduled to be released 17th January 2025

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Various Artists - Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I

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This product is available on pre order with a limited discounted price.

hidaiqu literally means “songs of the era”, a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural merging that would go on to shape a golden age of Chinese popular song & film in the pre-communism interwar period.

Waiting for Your Return brings together a wide collection of recordings for an anthological overview of the style. Taking in it's early beginnings in the work of the pioneering composer Li Jinhui - whose 1927 song "Drizzle", featuring the vocals of his daughter Li Minghui, is often referred to as the first shidaiqu record - through to more polished 1930s & 40s examples, when China's western-influenced popular music & movie industry reached it's golden age with the prevalence of the Seven Great Singing Stars (Bai Hong, Bai Guang, Gong Qiuxia, Li Xianglan, Wu Yingyin, Yao Lee and perhaps most prolific of all, Zhou Xuan).

Included in the collection are tracks recorded right up until the music's demise in Shanghai in the early 1950s - during which time the Chinese Communist Party denounced shidaiqu as "yellow music", outlawed nightclubs and pop music production, and destroyed western-style instruments - following which, much of these singers would decamp to Hong Kong where many saw further success throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s. 

Tracklisting

1. Li Minghui - The Drizzle
2. Zhang Fan - Fly All Over the Field
3. Li Li-Hua & Yan Hua - A Thousand Birds Facing the Phoenix
4. Zhou Xuan - Age of Bloom
5. Bai Guang - Waiting for Your Return
6. Wu Yingyin - The Moonlight Sends My Lovesickness Across a Thousand Miles
7. Wang Renmei - Song Of The Fishermen
8. Yao Lee & Yao Min - Congratulations, Congratulations
9. Bai Hong - Suzhou Nocturne
10. Zhou Xuan & Han Langen - Mahjong Classic
11. Yao Lee - Lovesick Tears
12. Gong Qiuxia - The Girl by the Autumn Water
13. Yuan Meiyun - The Most Beautiful Boy
14. Zhou Xuan & Yan Hua - New Life of Love
15. Yao Lee & Yao Min - Oh, Susan
16. Du Jie - Chinese New Year Song
17. Zhang Jing, Zhou Xuan & Li Mingjian - Bells
18. Qu Yunyun - Simple Life
19. Liu Qi - Tired of Dancing
20. Bai Guang - Expectation

Scheduled: 17 January 2025

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