Ben Sidran: A Life in the Music"Ben Sidran: A Life in The Music is much more than a musician's memoir; it's a picaresque story about a personal quest, the search for meaning at the beginning of a new millennium. Sidran delves into the complex relationships between African-Americans and Jews, fathers and sons, history and hope, money and technology, ecstasy and transformation. His prose deftly expresses his life-long affair with music in all its functions: as prayer, as community, as legacy, and as nothing but a party. It is a Pilgrim's Progress for another generation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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