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