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4 hours ago · “Strange Fruit” was different. The song gazes unflinchingly on the “strange fruit” of the title: hanged, burned, and mangled flesh left to rot on a tree. Well into the 20 th century, white vigilante mobs murdered thousands of Black Americans with impunity: lynching then leaving their bodies on display as a terrorist spectacle.
1 day ago · Billie Holiday performs ‘Strange Fruit’ in 1959. Unflinching lyrics. Like so many composers whose songs Holiday recorded – George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern – Meeropol ...
Apr 17, 2019 · But as Strange Fruit has become separated from Holiday’s personal life over the decades, it has also become distanced from the specific horror of lynching.
Aug 25, 2020 · To great controversy, Lady Day introduced the world to the racially charged protest song "Strange Fruit." In the end, some believe it killed her. By Eudie Pak Updated: Aug 25, 2020
Oct 10, 2022 · Strange Fruit is a mournful dirge protesting the lynching of black Americans in the Jim Crow-era South – more than 4,000 African Americans were brutally lynched in the US between 1877 and 1950.
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Nov 25, 2013 · First recorded in 1939, the protest song Strange Fruit came to symbolise the brutality and racism of the practice of lynching in America's South. Now, more than seventy years later, such is the...
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"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the
