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Mao Mao Yu
Li Ming Hui Lyrics
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@ModernChineseCulturalStudies
Watch Li Minghui 黎明暉 act the leading female role in the silent film "An Untold Tale of the Borderlands" 殖邊外史 (1926): https://youtu.be/Kfn3107d7y0
@wishingonthemoon1
I’m trying to listen to more classical/jazz from the east. Li’s biography is so interesting and also tragic
@ModernChineseCulturalStudies
On the history of jazz in China, I highly recommend Andrew F Jones' book "Yellow Music"
@wishingonthemoon1
@@ModernChineseCulturalStudies thank you!
@Roberto-dw5jz
So this song was released before Second Sino-Japanese War
@dbadagna
The arrangement and playing are great. I wonder if the musicians already, by this early date, included expatriate Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian jazz players.
Andrew Jones says the following:
"...there were a lot of refugees from Russia in Shanghai at that time, and a lot of them were in the music business. So, the band at EMI Pathe, the biggest music label in Shanghai, was composed in part of Chinese musicians, but also Russian musicians, some of whom went onto to become pretty famous modernist composers after they left Shanghai and went to the U.S. They were doing the arrangements."
@ModernChineseCulturalStudies
Thank you for sharing this, David! For other people interested in the Lis' song, and music of the age, be sure to check out these three books: 1. Andrew F. Jones, "Yellow Music"; 2. Andrew David Field, "Shanghai's Dancing World"; 3. Jean Ma, "Sounding the Modern Woman"
@ModernChineseCulturalStudies
I cite your many contributions (not by name) to the channel on pp16-17 of this article: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/article/1709/galley/476/view/
@dbadagna
@Modern Chinese Cultural Studies That's great, thank you. Your work is of the highest quality, attention to detail, and usefulness to an international community interested in these subjects.
@a75567556
This big bend version was recorded on 1932.