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This slim volume is focused on the history of a single song, written by a Jewish school teacher from New York City and first sung by Billie Holiday in 1939. The song is about the lynching of Negroes in the South, and its poetry is both mesmerizing and horrifying. While the horror of those times is gone and the import of the song did not have the impact of the folk music of the ‘60s and ‘70s, which was more widely distributed, the song’s import should not be forgotten, and it should be revisited as a reminder of man’s inhumanity to man. This is a poignant and fascinating story. David Margolick is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former legal reporter and law columnist for the New York Times. He is the author of Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadilloes of American Lawyers, and Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore
provides you with a catalog of over 120 books associated
with the jazz standards. Organized by category,
each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in
your research and guide you in your recreational
reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com
are listed at the right and the listing may be considered
the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always
the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated
indicating the book's relevance to the subject.
If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports
the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.
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