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DESCRIPTION:2018 Piediscalzi Lecture in Religion and American Culture\nReli
 gion Around Billie Holiday\nDr. Tracy Fessenden\n	The Steve and Margaret Fo
 rster Professor in Comparative Mythology\n	Arizona State University\nThursd
 ay\, March 29\, 2018\n	3:30-5:00 pm\n	156 A-B Student Union\n	(Endeavor Room)
 \nSoulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique so
 und\, troubled personal history\, and a catalogue that includes such reson
 ant songs as “Strange 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 multipl
 e religious influences on Holiday’s life and sound\, including her time sp
 ent as a child in a Baltimore convent\, the echoes of black Southern churc
 hes in the blues she heard in brothels\, the secular riffs on ancestral fa
 ith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance\, and the Jewish songwriting c
 ulture of Tin Pan Alley. Growing out of Fessenden’s most recent publicatio
 n\, Religion Around Billie Holiday (Penn State UP\, 2018)\, the lecture ai
 ms to illuminate the power and durability of religion in the making of an 
 American musical icon. \nTracy Fessenden holds the Steve and Margaret Fors
 ter Professorship in Comparative Mythology at Arizona State University\, w
 here she is a member of the faculty of Religious Studies. She is a scholar
  of American religion and the secular who focuses on literature and the ar
 ts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  In addition to Religion Aro
 und Billie Holiday\, Fessenden is the author of Culture and Redemption: Re
 ligion\, the Secular\, and American Literature (Princeton UP\, 2007) and c
 o-editor of The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion\, Sexuality\, an
 d American Literature (Routledge\, 2001)\, and Religion\, the Secular\, an
 d the Politics of Sexual Difference(Columbia UP\, 2013). She is Editor of 
 Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation and General Edi
 tor of the North American Religions series at New York University Press.\n
 This lecture is free and open to the public.  \nFor more information\, ple
 ase contact the Department of Religion at 937-775-2274 or religion@wright.
 edu\n*Note for first-year Honors students: Fall 2017 first-year Honors stu
 dents are required to attend one Dialogue during the 2017-2018 academic ye
 ar to maintain priority registration status. Students not satisfying the D
 ialogue requirement will lose their priority registration status for one s
 emester (Spring 2019). Look for the BLUE FOLDER to record your attendance 
 on the sign-in sheet.
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LOCATION:Student Union\, Room 156
SUMMARY:Honors Dialogue Event
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