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Bruce Springsteen
American Poet and Prophet
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2013
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Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music comment on their cultural, political, and even economic situation, reflecting technological advances, psychological concerns, religious feelings, and artistic trends of the times. Like other major musical artists, Bruce Springsteen’s work has reflected, revealed, and reacted to modern American realities over the course of his forty-year career.
Since releasing his first record in 1973, Springsteen has sold more than a hundred million albums worldwide, played thousands of concerts, and won Grammy, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Academy awards. More importantly, however, he is one of the few twentieth-century singer-songwriters to serve as the voice of his generation, a defining artist whose works reflect the values, dreams, and concerns of many Americans. In Bruce Springsteen: American Poet and Prophet,Donald L. Deardorff II explores the works of “The Boss,” defining the exact nature of Springsteen’s cultural influence.
With the release of seventeen studio albums, Springsteen’s influence and popularity spans multiple generations. Deardorff classifies and explains Springsteen’s remarkable reception as it evolved from small beginnings in the Jersey shore bars of the 1970s to worldwide fame today. This book thoughtfully considers the trenchant commentary Springsteen’s albums make on the mythology of the American Dream, working-class concerns, the changing character of American masculinity, the relationship between Americans and their government, the importance of social justice, and the evocation of an American spirit.
Bruce Springsteen: American Poet and Prophet will appeal to more than just Springsteen fans. It describes Springsteen as an apt critic of his own culture, whose music paints literary portraits that uncover the realities of an American society constantly evolving, while striving toward its own betterment.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8426-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8427-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
175
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Timeline No access
Introduction No access
1 Adam Raised a Cain No access Pages 1 - 22
2 Those Romantic Young Boys No access Pages 23 - 44
3 Streets of Fire No access Pages 45 - 66
4 Boys Try to Look So Hard No access Pages 67 - 86
5 I Had a Brother at Khe Sahn No access Pages 87 - 106
6 It Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad You’re Alive No access Pages 107 - 124
7 Deliver Me from Nowhere No access Pages 125 - 142
8 The Ministry of Rock ’n’ Roll No access Pages 143 - 158
