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Strange Fruit
Title: Strange Fruit
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 1430 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit
Jazz music has always existed as a voice for black musicians and audiences. The sounds and rhythms are extremely unique and colorful. It certainly changed America in the 1920's with the swing movement and it put jazz on the map. During this time many white people started to be influenced by this infectious music, and started to enjoy it. Many white people also discriminated against blacks and treated them as less than equal. …showed first 75 words of 1430 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1430 total…Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.”
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