Billie Holiday

to know where you can dive; For many, it will be unpredictable, because essential services continue mixing with nonessentials without offering advice on where to start. Spotify, here and there, outside of Apple Music. Her "related artists" to Billie Holiday (Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald) were more important than her competitor suggested. When I created a radio station around saxophonist Roland Kirk, the selections were soaked in the free ethos of the 60s and 70s. And the…

That’s Alright Mama: Elvis Presley releases his first recording with Sun Records. In his first commercial recording with him, he sings "That's Alright Mama" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky". Elvis Sketch: Bernard Levine. The Day the Music Died: On 1959, Billie Holiday, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper died when their plane crashed in Iowa. The event became known as "The Day the Music Died", and was memorialized…

Considering the recent presidential election, the idea of changing one’s hair to fit the paradigms of society coincides with Muslim women’s struggle with wearing their hijabs in the modern world. Similar to Harris-Perry’s idea that stereotyping makes black women conform to the “crooked room,” the fear of being shipped away has women, Muslim Americans questioning whether they should continue wearing their hijabs. Both, the black women in Harris-Perry’s book and Islamic women are perpetually in a…

What Makes a Good Writer? Every day people are surrounded by works of literature whether its fiction, nonfiction, a short story or even a poem. Literature has been integrated into our daily lives. One lives in a world where writing is second nature; a child is often taught how to write at the age of six, and continues to further his/her writing as the year’s progress. However, according to Anne Bernays “people can’t be taught how to write, they either have it or they don’t.” In order to become…

in various areas. The torture by which they put people through is horrific, and it is even worse that the people almost took pleasure in doing something as inhumane as this. In the poem “Strange Fruit” written by Abel Meeropol and performed by Billie Holiday, the painful act of lynching is described, revealing the bitter end those who were lynched had to face. Having already caused a person to meet a grim death through hanging, their body is then left “for the crows to pluck, for the rain to…

the Dr. Philips Center in Orlando Florida. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis spreads holiday cheer on its national Big Band Holidays tour. With soulful renditions of holiday classics, playful improvisation, and entertaining storytelling, they bring out the magic in such favorites as Count Basie’s “Jingle Bells,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and Billie Holiday’s “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.” The concert was located at The Walt Disney Theater and featured…

tree. A ton of white people were gathered around the tree, smiling and pointing about what happened (Beitler). The song “Strange Fruit” captures the emotions of the lynchings, and describe when people died and how they hung but no one really cared (Holiday). Mob mentality can be connected to the Racism during this time in…

in the prejudiced and segregated South. Vocals dripping with melancholia were the black community’s spokesmen and spokeswomen for expressing social and political issues. Artists such as Billie Holiday who sings an influential blues protest song entitled “Strange Fruit” which was written by a Jewish poet that Holiday popularized with her captivating voice. “Southern trees bear a strange fruit…strange fruit hangs from poplar trees.” The strange fruit hanging from the trees allude to the people…

1. Hands Up, Daye Jack ft. Killer Mike, 2015. Hands Up, by Daye Jack belongs in this playlist about police violence and police brutality towards Black America, as this is the songs focus. Daye Jack focuses on Black injustice in America revolving specifically around police brutality. This connects to our course themes, with lecture 8 and Maynard’s article, Arrested (In)Justice, as both relate with the rise of police murders towards Black youth in poor urban communities and its relation to the…

Liz Hale points out that in the male-dominated society, one could expect that trobairitz work would include the adoration of man; rather, it is the complete opposite and they are anything but submissive to men. (Fifes) One trobairitz who does this is Lady Castelloza who shows no fear of criticizing the actions of a man and acknowledging her own worth: “I’m angry if you refuse me any joy, and if you let me die you’ll commit a sin. I’ll be in torment, and you’ll be vilely blamed.” (source) Another…