There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated) by Sidran, Ben
There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated) by Sidran, Ben

There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated)

The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist"Terrific and tragically...
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Author: Ben Sidran
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There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated) by Sidran, Ben

There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated)

$81.55
There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated) by Sidran, Ben

There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated)

$81.55
Author: Ben Sidran
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist


"Terrific and tragically obscure . . . I can hardly believe how good it is."-Eric Alterman, The Nation


This book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative, and the ability of music to encode and deliver the two. It outlines the role of the Jews who came to America from Eastern Europe during the late 19th and 20th centuries and helped define the spirit of the American Dream: a concern for the average man and a penchant for tikkun olam, healing a shattered world. This is the story of how popular music made the ethical framework for 20th century America possible, where popular 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 Lives Matter, COVID-19, and streaming services such as Spotify and their impact on the Jewish experience and American Music History.



Author: Ben Sidran
Publisher: Nardis Books
Published: 03/23/2021
Pages: 426
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780578800691

About the Author
Sidran, Ben: - 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.

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