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Popular song in Shanghai dialect

One of the 'popular songs in the Shanghai dialect' Berthold Laufer recorded in November 1901, probably the third of five parts; the song's title is not recorded. Captured, like his opera recordings, on two phonographs running side by side.

Performer
Unidentified singers and musicians, Shanghai
Instruments
Voice 聲, Mixed ensemble 合奏
Era
Late Qing
Recorded
1901
Length
2:59
Licence
Public domain · Recorded by Berthold Laufer for the American Museum of Natural History; stereo reconstruction by Patrick Feaster (griffonage.com), via Wikimedia CommonsRecorded 1901; unpublished field recording, public domain in the US (pre-1923 sound recording).
Source
Wikimedia Commons

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