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DESCRIPTION:2018 Piediscalzi Lecture in Religion and American Culture“Relig
 ion Around Billie Holiday”Dr. Tracy FessendenThe Steve and Margaret Forste
 r Professor in Comparative MythologyArizona State UniversitySoulful jazz s
 inger Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound\, troubled p
 ersonal history\, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as “St
 range Fruit” and “God Bless the Child.” In this lecture\, Tracy Fessenden 
 will discuss the surprising ways in which Holiday and her music were also 
 strongly shaped by religion. Mixing elements of biography with the history
  of race and American music\, she will explore the multiple religious infl
 uences on Holiday’s life and sound\, including her time spent as a child i
 n a Baltimore convent\, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues
  she heard in brothels\, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetr
 y of the Harlem Renaissance\, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pa
 n Alley. Growing out of Fessenden’s most recent publication\, Religion Aro
 und Billie Holiday (Penn State UP\, 2018)\, the lecture aims to illuminate
  the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical
  icon.Tracy Fessenden holds the Steve and Margaret Forster Professorship i
 n Comparative Mythology at Arizona State University\, where she is a membe
 r of the faculty of Religious Studies. She is a scholar of American religi
 on and the secular who focuses on literature and the arts in the nineteent
 h and twentieth centuries.  In addition to Religion Around Billie Holiday\
 , Fessenden is the author of Culture and Redemption: Religion\, the Secula
 r\, and American Literature (Princeton UP\, 2007) and co-editor of The Pur
 itan Origins of American Sex: Religion\, Sexuality\, and American Literatu
 re (Routledge\, 2001)\, and Religion\, the Secular\, and the Politics of S
 exual Difference (Columbia UP\, 2013). She is Editor of Religion and Ameri
 can Culture: A Journal of Interpretation and General Editor of the North A
 merican Religions series at New York University Press.Event Webpage: https
 ://liberal-arts.wright.edu/religion-philosophy-and-classics/about/annual-l
 ectures#tab=piediscalzi-lecture
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180329T153000
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LOCATION:Student Union Endeavor Room (156)
SUMMARY:2018 Piediscalzi Lecture: 'Religion Around Billie Holiday'
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