Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song by Gary Golio, Charlotte Riley-Webb

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song

Gary Golio, Charlotte Riley-Webb

40 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography music informative slow-paced
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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 injusti...

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