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'Strange Fruit' one of 'the ten songs that actually changed the world.'
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Today's *encore* selection -- *Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song *by David
Margolick.  Billie Holiday (1915-1959), considered by some to be the
greatest of the female jazz vocalists, introduced 'Strange Fruit', a song
about lynching, into a world of songs about love and romance:

"A few years back, *Q*, a British music publication, named 'Strange Fruit'
one of 'the ten songs that actually changed the world.' Like any
revolutionary act, the song initially encountered great resistance. Holiday
and the black folksinger Josh White, who began performing it a few years
after Holiday first did [in 1939], were abused, sometimes physically, by
irate nightclub patrons -- 'crackers' as Holiday called them. Columbia
Records, Holiday's label in the late 1930s, refused to record it. ...
'Strange Fruit' marked a watershed, praised by some, lamented by others, in
Holiday's evolution from exuberant jazz singer to chanteuse of lovelorn
pain and loneliness. Once Holiday added it to her repertoire, some of its
sadness seemed to cling to her; as she deteriorated physically, the song
took on new poignancy and immediacy. ...

"Lynchings -- during which blacks were murdered with unspeakable brutality,
often in a carnival-like atmosphere, and then, with the acquiescence if not
the complicity of local authorities, hung from trees for all to see -- were
rampant in the South following the Civil War and for many years thereafter.
According to figures kept by the Tuskegee Institute -- conservative figures
-- between 1889 and 1940, 3,833 people were lynched; ninety percent of them
were murdered in the South, and four-fifths of them were black. Lynchings
tended to occur in poor, small towns -- often taking the place the famed
newspaper columnist H.L. Mencken once said, 'of the merry-go-round, the
theater, the symphony orchestra.' ... And they were meted out for a host of
alleged offenses -- not just for murder, theft and rape, but for insulting
a white person, boasting, swearing or buying a car. In some instances, it
was no infraction at all; it was just time to remind 'uppity' blacks to
stay in their place. ...

"The night that she first sang 'Strange Fruit' [at Cafe Society in New
York] 'there wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished,' she later
wrote in her autobiography. 'Then a lone person began to clap nervously.
Then, suddenly, everybody was clapping.' The applause grew louder and a bit
less tentative as 'Strange Fruit' became a nightly ritual for Holiday, then
one of her most successful records, then one of her signature songs, at
least in those places where it was safe to perform."

Lyrics:

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
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Author: David Margolick
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Copyright 2001 by David Margolick
Pages: 8, 19-20, 3-4

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