{"product_id":"strange-fruit-billie-holiday-and-the-biography-of-a-song-9780060959562","title":"Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, Strange Fruit is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. \u003cem\u003eStrange Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist sympathizer who wrote the song that would have an impact on generations of fans, black and white, unknown and famous, including performers Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, and Sting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margolick, David\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060959562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.42w x 0.43d","brand":"David Margolick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32972961742923,"sku":"9780060959562","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_923eae80-01a3-4823-8287-64b43b18b0df.jpg?v=1606343540","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/strange-fruit-billie-holiday-and-the-biography-of-a-song-9780060959562","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}