Paperback • 2001 • English

Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

Name: Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
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ISBN: 9780060959562

By David Margolick

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About the book

Recorded by 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 musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguere...Show more

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ISBN

9780060959562

Publisher

Ecco Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

Format

Paperback

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