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🎙️ Billie Holiday — “Strange Fruit” (1939) | History & Cultural Context
This clip presents Billie Holiday performing “Strange Fruit,” a song that forever changed American musical history. Written in 1937 as a poem by Abel Meeropol and later adopted by Holiday, “Strange Fruit” became the first widely recognized protest song in the United States. Holiday’s haunting delivery forced audiences to confront the ...
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