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  • Strange Fruit
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • History of African-American civil rights
  • Jeff Buckley songs
  • Nina Simone songs
  • Songs against racism and xenophobia
  • Songs about death
  • Songs based on actual events
  • United States National Recording Registry recordings
  • 1939 songs
  • Carmen McRae songs
  • Billie Holiday songs
  • Songs based on poems
  • Lynching in the United States
  • Works originally published in American magazines
abstract
  • %22Strange Fruit%22 is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States. Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden.The song continues to be covered by numerous artists, as well as inspiring novels, other poems and other creative works. In 1978, Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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  • Abel Meeropol
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  • GBF068625540
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  • 1719
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  • 2521379
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  • english
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  • Commodore Records
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  • 1939-04-20
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  • Strange Fruit
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