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Download # Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song PDF by ! David Margolick eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song great reading I found myself enjoying this book a lot more than I thought I would. I recommended it to a few of my friends.. STRANGE FRUIT is no more than an appetizer I was glad to see the announcement for this book, an essay on Billie Holiday's landmark song, "Strange Fruit." Margolick does a good job of describing the song's origins, its performance by Holiday and its initial reception by audiences and critics.Unfortunately, there is little analysis of the song's impact on the African-America
| Title | : | Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0058M8EQC |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
David Margolick is a contributor to Vanity Fair and the former National Legal Affairs Editor for the New York Times. A four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, he is the author of Undue Influence and At the Bar. He lives in New York City.
great reading I found myself enjoying this book a lot more than I thought I would. I recommended it to a few of my friends.. STRANGE FRUIT is no more than an appetizer I was glad to see the announcement for this book, an essay on Billie Holiday's landmark song, "Strange Fruit." Margolick does a good job of describing the song's origins, its performance by Holiday and its initial reception by audiences and critics.Unfortunately, there is little analysis of the song's impact on the African-American community or on American society in general. While the narrative is presented well, the commentary is often superficial: "Some African Americansdisliked the song because it portrayed blacks. ShortBut Worth the Read 'Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song' does a great job of dispelling the myths about the song and pinpointing the truth about one of the most famous American songs of the 20th century. Not only that but it also does a great job at pin-pointing why the song still has a shroud of mystery about it, and how it impacted generations of African-Americans and whites.It seems like a bit of light reading, but since the song is an important one, the book is a gem.
This book will evoke stirring images of Ms. It is written with great sincerity and dedication. Like Holiday's performance, Margolick's book is understated but intense, suffused with grace, power and dignity. "Show-stopper. Small though it is, "Strange Fruit is an outsized piece of reporting and a satisfying work of history."--"Legal Times"The biography of a song is an intriguing project, and David Margolick carries it off, fitting great masses of musical and social history into a tiny volume."--"City Paper"Margolick presents a quick, fluent survey of the times and characters that formed 'Strange Fruit'--a song that inspired and enraged many listeners int hsoe days before the Civil Rights movement and changed Holiday as a performer."--"Library Journal"Margolick does an admirable job of disentagling the myths Holiday wove about herself."--"National Re
Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would have an impact on generations of fans, black and white, unknown and famous, including performers Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, and Sting.. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South
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