Strange Fruit by David Margolick
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.
Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (Harper Perennial, 2001), Beyond Glory: Joseph Louis vs. David Margolick is the author of five books, including Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (Harper Perennial, 2001), Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. David Margolick (Harper Perennial, 2001), and Beyond Glory: Joe Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Ladies of Little Rock (Yale University Press, 2011) and Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink (Vintage, 2006). He is a Loomis School alumnus and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060959562 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060959568 |
| Titel | Strange Fruit |
| Autor | David Margolick |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2001-01-23 |
| Seitenanzahl | 168 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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