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Religion Around Billie Holiday

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


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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Religion Around

2. True Confessions

3 The Story of Jazz

4. Crossing Jordan

5. Our Lady

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Joining Matthew J. Cressler’s important study of Vatican II and Black Power in mid-century Chicago with Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (New York University Press, 2017) is Fessenden’s towering close reading of an African American vocalist whose Catholic-informed life, and others’ memory of it, reflect her discursive and performative treatment as the patron saint of jazz.”

—Vaughn A. Booker, Material Religion

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