Strange Fruit Billie Holiday Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights

Author : David Margolick
Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by David Margolick and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of 'Strange Fruit' from its genesis at the hands of Abel Meeropol to its popularization by Billie Holiday to its enduring power and appeal today. The author chronicles its effect on those who experienced it firsthand: musicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals, students, budding activists, even the waitressess and bartenders who worked the clubs. This is the story of a song that foretold the Civil Rights Movement and the lady who dared to sing it.

Author : David Margolick
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060959568
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by David Margolick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-01-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. 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.

Author : Gary Golio
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1467751235
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Gary Golio and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol combined their talents to create "Strange Fruit," the iconic protest song that brought attention to lynching and racism in America.

Author : Gary Golio
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
ISBN 13 : 1512438634
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Gary Golio and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsiders—Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants—combined their talents to create a song that challenged racism and paved the way for the Civil Rights movement.

Author : Lisa E. Davenport
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604733446
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Diplomacy written by Lisa E. Davenport and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracy's image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of America's program of jazz diplomacy practiced in the Soviet Union and other regions of the world from 1954 to 1968. Jazz music and jazz musicians seemed an ideal card to play in diminishing the credibility and appeal of Soviet communism in the Eastern bloc and beyond. Government-funded musical junkets by such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Goodman dramatically influenced perceptions of the U.S. and its capitalist brand of democracy while easing political tensions in the midst of critical Cold War crises. This book shows how, when coping with foreign questions about desegregation, the dispute over the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, jazz players and their handlers wrestled with the inequalities of race and the emergence of class conflict while promoting America in a global context. And, as jazz musicians are wont to do, many of these ambassadors riffed off script when the opportunity arose. Jazz Diplomacy argues that this musical method of winning hearts and minds often transcended economic and strategic priorities. Even so, the goal of containing communism remained paramount, and it prevailed over America's policy of redefining relations with emerging new nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Author : Dorian Lynskey
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062078844
Total Pages : 1127 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 33 Revolutions per Minute written by Dorian Lynskey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorian Lynskey is one of the most prominent music critics writing today. With 33 Revolutions Per Minute, he offers an engrossing, insightful, and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond. From Billie Holiday and Woodie Guthrie to Bob Dylan and the Clash to Green Day and Rage Against the Machine, 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a moving and fascinating portrait of a century of popular music that tried to change the world.

Author : Farah Jasmine Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684868083
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If You Can't be Free, be a Mystery written by Farah Jasmine Griffin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threads of Billie Holiday's mystique are unraveled in this study of a woman who needed to create art at any cost. Griffin liberates Holiday from stereotypes of black women and pries her away from the male tradition of jazz criticism while presenting Holiday's independent spirit. of photos.

Author : Lillian Eugenia Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Lillian Eugenia Smith and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evelyn M. Simien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137001224
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Lynching written by Evelyn M. Simien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.

Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829219
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Billie written by Julia Blackburn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it. Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. Volatile, unpredictable, Billie Holiday remained, even to her friends, an elusive and perplexing figure. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people–piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who knew what really mattered to her. Reading With Billie, one is convinced that she has only just left the room but will return shortly.