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Strange Fruit ist ein Musikstück, das seit dem Auftritt der afroamerikanischen Sängerin Billie Holiday 1939 im Café Society in New York weltweit bekannt wurde. Das von Abel Meeropol komponierte und getextete Lied gilt als eine der stärksten künstlerischen Aussagen gegen Lynchmorde in den Südstaaten der USA und als ein früher ...
Originally written in 1937 by Abel Meeropol, “Strange Fruit” is a dark and profound song centered around the lynching of African Americans in the Southern United States during the Jim Crow Era.
22. Dez. 2011 · lyrics Strange Fruit Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees...
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27. März 2019 · Der Song »Strange Fruit« von Billie Holiday protestiert 1939 gegen die Lynchmorde an Schwarzen in den USA. Er basiert auf einem Gedicht von Adam Meerpol, das von einem Foto eines gelynchten Opfers inspiriert wurde.
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the
17. Apr. 2019 · Cultural critic Emily J Lordi is describing the particular power of a song that still shocks 80 years after it was first performed. On 20 April 1939, the jazz singer Billie Holiday (born Eleanora...
“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had ...
