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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song

By David Margolick, Hilton Als (Foreword by)
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By David Margolick, Hilton Als (Foreword by)
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Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, “Strange Fruit” is considered the first significant song of the Civil Rights movement and the first direct assault against racial lynchings in the South. First sung in New York’s Café Society, these revolutionary lyrics have taken up a life of their own, as David Margolick discusses in his revealing account of the song and the struggle it ca...

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