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'Strange Fruit' | 100 Greatest Popular Songs: TIME List of Best Music ...
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Oct 21, 2011 - The devastating image of “strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” is the mournful heart of this antiracism song. Named song of the century ...Strange Fruit - Wikipedia
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"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, .... 1999: Time magazine named Strange Fruit as "Best Song ...Strange Fruit is still a song for today | Edwin Moore | Opinion | The ...
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Sep 18, 2010 - On the last day of 1999, Time magazine selected Strange Fruit as its choice for the best song of the passing century. The lyric is not as well as ...Strange Fruit: the first great protest song | Music | The Guardian
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Feb 16, 2011 - Billie Holiday's 1939 song about racist lynchings redefined popular music. ... patrons are not just welcomed but privileged with the best seats in the house. ... Time magazine named her first studio version the "song of the century". Although lynching was already on the decline by the time of Strange Fruit ...The Song of the Century: Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit”
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Feb 15, 2015 - Holiday always performed “Strange Fruit” last and never followed the ... The song went on to become her greatest hit, selling one million records in ... TIME magazine named “Strange Fruit” the “Song of the Century” in 1999, ...Blood at the Root: “Strange Fruit” as Historical Document and ...
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Jan 1, 2004 - While the blues ballad “Strange Fruit” failed to gain a large ... OAH Magazine of History, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 January 2004, Pages 54–56 ... Time magazine crowned it as the greatest song of the twentieth century. Q, the British music magazine, hailed it as one of the century's ten most important recordings.Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday | Song Info | AllMusic
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Song information for Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday on AllMusic. ... 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday · Hip-O, 3:13.Strange Fruit - The New York Times
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Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. ... once called "Strange Fruit" "the first significant protest in words and music, the first ... Holiday performed the song countless times in her last two decades. .... One French magazine described him as the headmaster of a school for ... (C) 2000 David Margolick All rights reserved.Strange Fruit: A protest song with enduring relevance - BBC.com
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Nov 25, 2013 - How a protest song written in 1939 is still recorded and relevant today. ... It was the last time Simeon saw his cousin alive. ... in the 1930s and was prompted to write the song Strange Fruit - later to be made famous by Billie Holiday. Abel ... In 1999, Time magazine voted Strange Fruit the Song of the Century.Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit — 'the first unmuted cry ... - Financial Times
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Nov 14, 2017 - Late last year the British singer and one-time X Factor runner-up Rebecca ... Made famous by the jazz singer Billie Holiday , it was a song, she ... In 1999 Time magazine called Holiday's version the song of the century, though ...Related search
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