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FORGES KNOW WHEN THE SONG BECOMES COMPLAINT (duties for Thursday, besides the comment)

Eleanora Fagan Gough (Philadelphia, 1915 - New York, 1959), known as Billie Holiday , is one of the most important jazz singers of all time, alongside Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.

In his lengthy discography, let deternos in a song called Strange Fruit ("Strange Fruit"). You must investigate and leave as comment on the blog the following questions :

1. Listen to the song (click here ): How would you define the melody and the singing of Billie Holiday (fast or slow happy or sad, calm or torn ...)?
2. What date is the song? How many years had passed since the end of the American Civil War?
3. What is really the song? What is that "strange fruit"?
4. What do you think was the purpose of Billie Holiday in popularizing this song?
5. In the city of Mobile (Alabama) Billie Holiday had to flee when he tried to sing the song during a concert, why? Where in the United States is Alabama?