Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights: Amazon.de: David Margolick, Hilton Als: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 160 Seiten
Verlag: Payback Press; Auflage: New edition (30. M�rz 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1841951137
ISBN-13: 978-1841951133
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 13 x 1,4 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (10 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 477.066 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Our image of Billie Holiday is that of the elegant and melancholy jazz singer known for her haunting voice and immortal classics like "Lady Sings the Blues" and "My Man." But there was another song she performed that stood out in her repertoire: "Strange Fruit," a disturbing and impressionistic elegy to lynched black men in the South. Now, for the first time, New York Times and Vanity Fair contributor David Margolick uncovers the extraordinary history of this important American composition that few singers dare to perform to this day. For Margolick, "'Strange Fruit' defies easy musical categorization and has slipped between the cracks of academic study. It's too artsy to be folk music, too explicitly political and polemical to be jazz. Surely no song in American history has ever been guaranteed to silence an audience or to generate such discomfort."

Margolick reconstructs that discomfort when he details that fateful night in 1939 when Holiday first performed "Strange Fruit" at New York's Cafe Society. He also writes about the song's composer, Abel Meeropol (who later adopted the sons of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg). For the author, "Strange Fruit" was a protest act on par with Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus years later, and he notes the influence the song has had on poets, singers, and writers as diverse as Maya Angelou, Cassandra Wilson, and Natalie Merchant. What David Margolick proves in this small but important book is that art can indeed move people in ways nothing else can. --Eugene Holley Jr. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Anyone who has heard Billie Holiday sing "Strange Fruit" knows of, if not understands, the awful shame blacks have had to bear living in America. The first two lines explain it: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit, / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." Holiday first sang this dirge in early 1939 in the integrated CafeSociety nightclub in New York, and soon after that fateful event, it became Holiday's signature song. Margolick tells that story and many more concerning "Strange Fruit" in this biography of the song itself, which is being published on the eighty-fifth anniversary of Holiday's birth. Bobby Short, the diminutive supper-club singer, aptly characterizes the early protest song as "a way of moving the tragedy of lynching out of the black press and into the white consciousness." Studs Turkel further defines it: "When you think of the South and Jim Crow, you naturally think of the song, not of `We Shall Overcome.'" But time is fleeting, so it isn't utterly surprising that "Strange Fruit" is not heard today or that its significance as a historical document is barely known. Margolick corrects all that with this terribly engrossing book--one that the curious reader will devour in one sitting. Bonnie Smothers -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Very Powerful 19. Juli 2000

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Billie Holiday struck a chord that hasn't really been properly addressed in song since.the Lynchings&Blood still get my full attention.in fact it still happens in some places.this Book needs more exposure.Race is Being tuned out except when their are Beat downs&other things.a Book Like this will keep your full attention.very Powerful.you can never speak enough on the subject or the Impact of Lady Day's Words.

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An impressive charting of early efforts seeking justice. 4. Juli 2000

Von Midwest Book Review

While Strange Fruit is a superb biography of singer Billie Holiday, its added focus on cafe society and civil rights issues charts the beginning of the movement and provides an important key to understanding the controversial ballad which became Holiday's signature tune and the start of Civil Eights efforts. In telling the story of the song's roots and popularity, this charts early efforts in the struggle for justice.

Bitter crop, strange beauty. 13. Juni 2000

Von Miranda Gaea

Rather than review David Margolick's succinct tour de force of reporting and writing in my words, let me share some excerpts of it in his:

"White's version of "Strange Fruit" is intense, almost febrile, but it is less searing and subtle than Holiday's. "When Josh sings it, you feel you're hearing a great performance," said White's biographer, Elijah Wald. "When Billie sings it, you feel as if you're at the foot of the tree."

"Decades later, the experience of listening to, and watching, Billie Holiday perform "Strange Fruit," her eyes closed and head back, the familiar gardenia over her ear, her ruby lipstick magnifying her mocha complexion, her fingers snapping lightly, her hands holding the microphone stand as if it were a tea cup -- lingered in many memories."

When Billie sang it, "the apartment became a cathedral."

"That was all she sang; nobody asked her to sing anything else. There was a finality about the last note. Even the pianist knew. He just got up and walked away."

The reader will not just get up and walk away from this book. You will find yourself compelled to read and hear echoing every word of this strange and bitter account of a beautiful woman and a terrifying song, and how they combine with the beautiful and terrifying thing that was America and its race relations at mid-century.

David Margolick spent much of his career providing colorful accounts of that grayist of American tribes, the lawyers, for the gray New York Times. In moving to the pastels of plenty at Vanity Fair, he has richer subjects, and none with greater depth than this lady and these blues and the lost world made alive again in this book.