No movement sans art
August 12, 2007
In the vast history of war and mass movements, artists have always set the cadence. Just think back to the drummer boys of the Revolutionary War or the song Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday during the Civil Rights Movement;
“Strange trees bear 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.”
-Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
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