Presents the lyrics to a song that pays tribute to the Aboriginal women who served as drover's boys in northern Australia in the early part of the twentieth century.
A collection of songs that capture desperate lives that all too often reflect desperate times from the chain gangs of the Deep South to the depression-ravaged streets of New York.
Billie Holiday, Caf? Society, and an early call for civil rights
Margolick, David
2000
Traces the history of "Strange Fruit," a controversial ballad about a lynched African-American man hanging from a tree, popularized by jazz singer Billie Holiday in the 1940s.