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| #94570 in Books | David Margolick | 2001-01-23 | 2001-01-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.38 x5.31l,.33 | File type: PDF | 168 pages | Strange Fruit The Biography of a Song||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Truth is stranger than fiction!!|By The Dude|A fascinating story about one of the most fascinating and important songs ever written. "Strange Fruit", without being tiresome or pedantic in any way, insidiously and irresistibly gave a major boost to the nascent Civil Rights Movement through the seductive medium of song. People who would never have listened to any graphi||"Show-stopper. To hear Billie holiday sing 'Strange Fruit' was to be forever haunted. Like Holiday's performance, Margolick's book is understated but intense, suffused with grace, power and dignity. It works on several levels: as tribute, elegy, homage andcult
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...
You easily download any file type for your device.Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song | David Margolick, Hilton Als.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
