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

Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. III

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1.	Gong Qiuxia - The Train 02:41	buy track
2.	Zhou Xuan - Street Moon 02:50	buy track
3.	Du Jie - The Beauty Comes 02:54	buy track
4.	Li Xianglan - Moonlight Ditty 02:37	buy track
5.	Wu Yingyin - Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon 03:11	buy track
6.	Lang Yuxiu - Falling Flowers 03:13	buy track
7.	Zhou Xuan - Laughing Praise 02:44	buy track
8.	Bai Hong - Love Song Beyond the Great Wall 02:55	buy track
9.	Bai Yun - Long Night and More Dreams 03:06	buy track
10.	Yao Min - My Heart 02:40	buy track
11.	Gong Qiuxia - Horse Racing 03:07	buy track
12.	Yi Min - Willow Branches 02:47	buy track
13.	Ensemble of the All-Shanghai United Harmonica Team - Exhort 03:01	buy track
14.	Wang Renmei - Wind and Rain Song 02:40	buy track
15.	Wang Renmei - Lilac Mountain 03:17	buy track
16.	Gong Qiuxia & Mei Xi - Sunny Sky 02:48	buy track
17.	Zhang Fan - The Love of a Village Girl 02:55	buy track
18.	Yao Lee - Willow Spring 02:51	buy track
19.	Zhou Xuan - Lovely Morning 03:02	buy track
20.	Luo Cuiyu - Lullaby 03:02	buy track

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Shidaiqu 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.

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