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DESCRIPTION:A guest lecture by Sylvia Topp\, part of The Secret Chord Proje
 ct: Exploring the Religious in Popular Music Through the Works of Bob Dyla
 n and Leonard Cohen.\n\nSylvia Topp is the author of Eileen: The Making of
  George Orwell (Unbound\, 2024). She has worked in publishing since colleg
 e\, starting as a copy editor on medical journals\, then moving to editing
  at major literary publishing houses. She was the long-time wife and partn
 er of Tuli Kupferberg\, a Beat poet who later was a co-founder\, in 1964\,
  of the Fugs\, a legendary rock and roll band. Topp and her husband Tuli w
 ere acquainted with Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village in the 1960s and '70s.\
 n\nThe Secret Chord Project explores the influence of religious concepts a
 nd imagery in popular music\, with a particular focus on Bob Dylan and Leo
 nard Cohen\, two of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time. T
 his project brings together leading scholars specializing in Dylan and Coh
 en\, individuals who had personal connections to them\, musicians\, songwr
 iters\, as well as the Director of the internationally recognized Institut
 e for Bob Dylan Studies at the University of Tulsa. These events offer rar
 e opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students across campus
  communities—as well as Rochester’s broader community—to engage with
  them and their scholarship.\n\nSponsored by the Department of Religion & 
 Classics\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, the Humanities Center\, the Art
 hur Satz Department of Music\, the Departmetn of English\, the Institute f
 or Popular Music\, and the Eastman School of Music.
GEO:43.128562;-77.630075
LOCATION:Morey Hall\, Room 321
SUMMARY:Greenwich Village in the Sixties\, Beat Generation and Bob Dylan
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/our-greenwich-village
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Talks
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