“Strange Fruit”: from a classic jazz number to modern art

The poem “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol became a notorious song performed by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The gesture and interpretation of the great Lady Day anchored “Strange Fruit” in the history of jazz and music. But beyond that, the black and white notes of the song also find, plastically, a dull or crying resonance, in any case – cruelly – evocative.