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Laddar... Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (2000)av David Margolick
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Essentially a long, sophisticated book report on the most important song in American history. Margolick has done his homework but that's about all. There's very little soul here, about how the song feels, how it is structured, how it has had the effect it has other than being about lynching. I know that's difficult ("dancing about architecture and whatnot. Look it up) but I figure that's part of compiling a "biography of a song?" ( ) 3959. Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights, by David Margolick (read 1 Dec 2004) This little book tells of a 1939 song made famous by Billie Holiday, sometimes described as "the most moving jazz singer of her day," entitled Strange Fruit. The words were: Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black body swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind suck, For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop. The book tells how people reacted to the song, some being very offended (not wanting to be reminded of the fact that lynchings occurred, apparently). Billie Holiday had a tumultuous life, dying in 1959. But since she has been on a postage stamp (U.S. #2856). A little book well worth reading. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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 beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would have an impact on generations of fans, black and white, unknown and famous, including performers Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, and Sting. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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