Strange Fruits, an Ace Beaty mix. Recorded on June 3rd, 2019.
Guest Actress: Nicole Kidman. Graphic Design: Ace Beaty Photography: Lawrence Henry Beitler Non commercial use.
"Strange Fruit" is a song most famously performed by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939, in this mix performed by Puutwa. It was originally written as a poem by teacher Abel Meeropol and published in 1937. Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York City venues in the late 1930s. The poem protested US American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the 20th century, but continued there and in other regions of the USA. The great majority of victims were black people. The song's lyrics are an extended metaphor linking a tree’s fruit with lynching victims.
