Song Analysis Of All The Rage By Billie Holiday

It's about the brutal murders of African Americans by white mobs from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century known as lynching. The song was composed by a white poet and teacher, and was recorded by Billie Holiday. The song was Holiday's "personal protest against racism" and it was very invested to perform the song due to risks. She was able to immediately understand the meanings and "resonated with her own anger about her father's death." The reason that the song transformed her status in American popular culture is because it gained her broader recognition and connected her with“a new tendency in black musical culture that directly addressed issues of racial injustice.”

"All the rage" is a song composed using elements from the event
that 10000 people protested the governor's veto of legislation that would have banned housing discrimination against gays and lesbians in San Francisco in 1991. Ostertag also had promised to sign the bill Ostertag thought that a relationship was created between people and machines rather than "machines enable new relationships between people." He recorded the riot, interviewed people, and took out specific sounds and created "a piece integrating those sounds and a string quartet." Besides, he added a spoken text "that would let the listener in by presenting, in a very personal way, the emotions and passions of one individual in the crowd." He did these things in order to bring the audience inside the riot to truly feel the passion, energy and anger inside the riot.