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5. Mai 2024 · Uploaded by TV Archive on May 5, 2024. The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, was considered in a conversation that...
Vor 2 Tagen · Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a ...
10. Mai 2024 · This lesson details the history and impact of singer Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit." The lesson, which features four experts speaking at an event hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy...
Vor 2 Tagen · Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York) was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with the Fletcher ...
- Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers from the 1930s to the ’50s. She had no formal musical training, but, with an instinctive sense...
- As a singer, Holiday was known for her dramatic intensity, which could render the most banal lyric profound. Among the songs identified with her we...
- Holiday began her career singing in a Harlem nightclub and made her first recordings in 1933, with Benny Goodman and others. Two years later a seri...
22. Mai 2024 · Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article in the Journal of African American History, titled ...
17. Mai 2024 · Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday
24. Mai 2024 · English. The first time that Billie Holiday performed "Strange Fruit," the audience was silent — but the song would help pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement. This picture book for older readers explores a protest song against lynching, sung by a complex artist — and along the way teaches young readers the p.
