Ben Sidran

eBook, ePUB

There Was a Fire (eBook, ePUB)

Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated)

Beschreibung

The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award FinalistThis book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative, and theability of music to encode and deliver the two. It outlines the role of the Jews whocame to America from Eastern Europe during the late 19th and 20th centuries andhelped define the spirit of the American Dream: a concern for the average man and apenchant for tikkun olam, healing a shattered world. This is the story of howpopular music made the ethical framework for 20th century America possible, wherepopular song led to personal freedom, and social justice was only a chorus away.Newly revised and updated, the book includes the advent of Trump, Black LivesMatter, COVID-19, and streaming services such as Spotify and their impact on theJewish experience and American Music History.

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Autor

Ben Sidran was a major force in the contemporary history of jazz and rock & roll, having played keyboards with or produced such artists as Steve Miller, Mose Allison, Diana Ross, Boz Scaggs, Phil Upchurch, Tony Williams, Jon Hendricks, Richie Cole and Van Morrison. Though primarily renowned as a gifted pianist, composer, producer, among other music-related roles, Ben Sidran has also made a name for himself as a writer. Sidran's first book, Black Talk: How the Music of Black America Created a Radical Alternative to Western Literary Tradition (Da Capo Press), is based on his doctoral dissertation. Talking Jazz: An Oral History (Da Capo Press), published twenty-four years later, collects personal interviews with jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. His third literary endeavor, Ben Sidran: A Life in the Music (Unlimited Media), expresses his life-long affair with music and all its functions: as prayer, as community, as legacy, and as nothing but a party. He delves into the complex relationships between African-Americans and Jews, fathers and sons, history and hope, money and technology, ecstasy and transformation. His penultimate book, There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream, was a 2011 finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and remains a teaching text in Jewish Studies programs everywhere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780578773605
• Artikelnr.: 70884385