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"Strange Fruit" Archived March 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Shmoop, analysis of lyrics, historical and literary allusions - student & teaching guide "Strange Fruit" at MusicBrainz (information and list of recordings) BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Series 17, Strange Fruit "Strange Fruit: A protest song with enduring relevance" "Strange Fruit ...
The Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurant "The Friendly Toast" included a drink called Strange Fruit on a menu of cocktails named after banned books. In 2015 this generated controversy, as a patron took the name as a reference to the song of the same name and found it inappropriate. The drink was later removed from the menu.
The song was recorded and performed by Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. [7] Holiday notes in the book Lady Sings the Blues that she co-wrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White . The writers David Margolick and Hilton Als dismissed that claim in their work Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song , writing that hers was "an account ...
Get to know the story behind Billie Holiday's controversial "Strange Fruit," now the subject of Hulu biopic "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."
Today, “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke and “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye remain relevant to Black America.
"Strange Fruit" as a song and concept has been used in LGBT art including a 1944 lesbian novel, [40] Kyle Schickner's 2004 video, [41] performance artist and ethnographer E. Patrick Johnson's one-man show (which toured the US between 1999 and 2004), [42] and drag queen Monét X Change's cover and music video. The combination of the song's ...
Commissioned in 1975 by Thomas Nelson Publishers, this version of the Bible was created by 130 Bible scholars, church leaders and lay Christians who worked for seven years to produce a new, modern ...
Bitter Fruit (poem), 1937 poem by Abel Meeropol in The New York Teacher, base of the Billie Holiday song "Strange Fruit" Bitter Fruit, The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala Stephen Schlesinger 1982; Bitter Fruit, collection of stories by Sa'adat Hasan Manto