From “Strange Fruit,” the 1959 song about lynchings made popular by singer Billie Holiday to “We Made It Through That Water,” the 2010 song about Hurricane Katrina survivors written by the Free Agents Brass Band, music has carried voices to places they would not otherwise be heard.
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