Southern Trees Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, 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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par la suite une chanson et la proposera à la chanteuse noire américaine de jazz et de bleues, Billie Holiday. Celle-ci, déjà célèbre, chantera pour la première fois ce texte, devenu Strange Fruit, au Café Society, seul club antiségrégationniste de New York. Dans une mise en scène sobre avec le public plongé dans le noir et un faisceau de lumière éclairant la silhouette de Billie Holiday, celle-ci chanta d’une voix déchirante accompagnée des seules notes d’un piano. A la fin de sa

..........................................p. 6 à 8 b) «La chanson des resto» par les Enfoirés........................................................p. 8 à 9 II. La musique au service de la liberté: 1) Pour la défense des droits des hommes a) Billie Holiday avec «Strange Fruit»...............................................................p. 9 à 11 b)Angela de Yannick Noah..............................................................................p. 11 à 13 2) Pour la liberté d'expression.....

(Religion): Separating Church and State 9. (Social Services): The Social Safety Net 10. (The Arts): Distinctively American Arts 11. (Sports & Entertainment): Exporting Popular Culture 12. (The Media): The Media and Their Messages Holidays: National Celebrations Chapter One ONE FROM MANY Immigration patterns and ethnic composition The Statue of Liberty The story of the American people is a story of immigration and diversity. The United States has welcomed more immigrants

contacts with Europeans. The lucrative slave trade started between Africa, Europe and America. The first Africans in the American colonies landed in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed in New Plymouth. The Negroes were soon indispensable for southern agriculture like cotton, tobacco and rice. But although they worked side by side with whites the colonial laws quickly came to exclude them. Inter-racial marriages were forbidden, the courts treated a black criminal more harshly, it was forbidden