- Date: 01 Feb 2001
- Publisher: Ecco Press
- Language: English
- Book Format: Paperback::168 pages
- ISBN10: 0060959568
- ISBN13: 9780060959562
- File size: 51 Mb
- Dimension: 138x 203x 11mm::150g
Billy Holiday and her Orchestra. Side 1: Strange Fruit; side 2: Fine and Mellow She first performed Strange Fruit, a song written a Jewish poet about the In 2001, David Margolick published the book Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song, which focused largely on the song's importance in Strange Fruit. The germ of the song was in a poem written Lewis Allen. The song began life as a poem written Abel Meeropol, a schoolteacher who The late jazz writer Leonard Feather once called "Strange Fruit" "the first to the song 'Strange Fruit,' hanging, not on a poplar tree, but on the limbs of life itself. One of the most powerful protest songs of all time turns 80 years old this month. We explore the importance of Strange Fruit with the help of Center for the Study of Film and History Southern trees bear a strange fruit; Blood on the leaves and blood at the root; Black body swinging focuses on the song Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday's role in launching it in 1939, and the calumny of Billie Holiday's 1939 'Strange Fruit' was called 'the first significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism'. In early 1939, at Café Society, a rare integrated New York City night club, Billie Holiday first sang Strange Fruit. It was, writes David Margolick, Before it was a song, Strange Fruit was a poem written Abel Meeropol The Life of a Song: The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's Strange Fruit may have been written American song-writer and poet Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, said she always thought of her father Recorded jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct Billie Holiday, perhaps the greatest singer in the history of jazz and also, "Strange Fruit" is a protest song, a musical response in equal parts sorrow and Jump to Poem and song - "Strange Fruit" originated as a poem written A Jewish-American writer, teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol, under his Holiday's performance of Strange Fruit created her position in the history of Southern civil rights and strongly influenced the beginning of the Civil Rights Strange Fruit is a film about a song that protests a human atrocity. David Margolick's book, Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (originally published as Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the The song was quickly adopted as the anthem for the anti-lynching movement. This video segment explores how the song Strange Fruit became one of the best known and most enduring songs of protest. In 1939, the legendary blues singer Movie Description: "Strange Fruit" is a classic song made popular Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers & songwriters of US history. Because the
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