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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music. Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When it was first published in 1997, while Jim Cullen was teaching at Harvard, Born in the U.S.A. was the first scholarly treatment of Bruce Springsteen's work. Moving beyond the journalistic and biographical approaches that have dominated the subject then and ever since, Cullen situated the Puritans to Martin Luther King, showing how he absorbed, refracted and revitalized American mythology, including the American Dream, the work ethic, and the...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen are among the most well-known and beloved figures in American popular music in the past half-century. The two, friends over many decades, have often been compared. But in this study, cultural historian Jim Cullen systematically traces the uncanny parallels in their lives. Here are two people who were born in the same year-one east of New York City on Long Island, the other west of New York City in suburban New Jersey....
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