Songwriters Flashcards
Poem definition?!
Is a Question of form and it is question of language too, words and relationship between words.
Protest songs?
Is a song addressing social or political issue
Date of birth of Billie Holiday and the place were she was born?
In 1915, she was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Parents who were only teenagers.
Where Billy holiday started singing?
In Harlem jazz clubs
Billie Holiday was one of the stars of?
The swing era
from the night she tested the song strange fruit she became .. ?
Political symbol and even more political activist and she would be persecuted for this reason.
Why she was jailed 1 year in 1947?
Because of her alcohol and drugs addiction
Why she was persecuted by the FBI?
Because of her singing a song about racism and lynching and drawing peoples attention in the word to the horror of racism in the United States
What strange fruit meant to Billie Holiday?
All the realities all the death all the kinds of suffering black people
Billie Holiday remains…?
An iconic figure of jazz music civil right movement
Who writes strange fruit and when? Date from when?
Date from the very beginning of the civil rights movement
It was written around 1937 by Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan)
Who is Abel meeropol?
Strange fruit ?
A member of the American communist party.
It was an anti- lynching song
L’année de naissance de Woody Guthrie? Le lieu?
Born in Oklahoma in a small town called Okemah in 1912.
Why he was named Woody?
He was named after the president Woodrow Wilson (who decided the entrance of the US into the first world war in 1917)
At the time of the great depression, where did woody Guthrie go?
He followed his father seeking for new opportunities from Oklahoma to Pampa,Texas.
