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American Lonesome - The Work of Bruce Springsteen (Hardcover)
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American Lonesome - The Work of Bruce Springsteen (Hardcover)
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American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a
visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the
international legacy of Springsteen's writing, music, and
performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes's innovative study of this
popular musician and his position in American culture blends
scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic
examination of Springsteen's work and a moving account of how it
offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential
lonesomeness of modern life. Cologne-Brookes proposes that the
American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, which assesses the
value of ideas and arguments based on their practical applications,
provides a lens for understanding the diversity of perspectives and
emotions encountered in Springsteen's songs and performances.
Drawing on pragmatist philosophy from William James to Richard
Rorty, Cologne-Brookes examines Springsteen's formative environment
and outsider psychology, arguing that the artist's confessed
tendency toward a self-reliant isolation creates a tension in his
work between lonesomeness and community. He considers Springsteen's
portrayals of solitude in relation to classic and contemporary
American writers, from Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Emily Dickinson to Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce
Carol Oates. As part of this critique, he discusses the difference
between escapist and pragmatic romanticism, the notion of multiple
selves as played out both in Springsteen's work and in our
perception of him, and the impact of performances both recorded and
live. By drawing on his own experiences seeing Springsteen perform-
including on tours showcasing the album The River in 1981 and 2016-
Cologne-Brookes creates a book about the intimate relationship
between art and everyday life. Blending research, cultural
knowledge, and creative thinking, American Lonesome dissolves any
imagined barriers between the study of a songwriter, literary
criticism, and personal testimony.
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