Strange Fruit
Subtitle: The Biography of a Song
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: January 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780060959562
Subjects: Holiday, Billie,; Strange fruit; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; United States; Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk; Songs; Music; Lynching; History and criticism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Music / History & Criticism; Allan, Lewis,; Protest songs; Songs and music; Discrimination & Racism; Southern States; 1903-1986; 1915-1959
First sentence: AS BILLIE HOLIDAY later told the story, a single gesture by a patron at a New York nightclub called Cafe Society changed the history of American music that night in early 1939, the night that she first sang "Strange Fruit."