Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song by David Margolick, Hilton Als

Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

David Margolick, Hilton Als

168 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative reflective sad fast-paced
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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...

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