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Jeremy Jeanguenin, « Strange Fruit », Black Troubadours, ID : 10670/1.s9rhsj
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The 1954 song seemingly celebrates grapes and harvests, the wild nature and the warm wind. Actually, none of these. Indeed, this quite naturalist painting, disturbing, denounces racial crimes. A sort of pastiche of the American naturalist poem, Strange Fruit, written by Abel Meeropol (and not Billie Holiday herself) uses the naturalist allegory, objectifying the obscene, to denounce atrocities. The corpses hanging from the poplar trees and swinging are the fruits. They crowd this sad lulla...