Religion Around Billie Holiday

Explores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday's life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.

About the author

Tracy Fessenden is the Steve and Margaret Forster Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and the author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature.

Summary

Explores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday’s life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Fessenden, Tracy (Arizona State University) Fessenden, Fessenden Tracy
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2018
• EAN: 9780271080956
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08095-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Religion Around; Religion Around
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: religious & spiritual, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: arts and entertainment