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Strange Fruit - Ben Tau
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Ben Tau (G. E. Alleyne)
Strange Fruit, 1998
Iron
Both treatments of the Strange Fruit theme recall the persistence of lynching over an extended period of African American history. Both owe inspiration to the potent and poignant images of hanged black bodies under the southern sun as popularized in Billie Holiday’s powerful rendering of the song Strange Fruit.