Azizi

I find to my surprise that I often know more about US culture and history than many Americans do. It's no surprise though, we get swamped with more US culture and history nowadays than Aussie stuff - like we used to get swamped with British stuff 50 years ago.

'Strange Fruit' was not written by a negro, but a jewish male some time before Billie Holiday picked it up. Billie Holiday seemed to have convinced herself that it had been specially written for her. There is a wonderful documentary about it, which I suspect may be mentioned in the relevant threads.