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Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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There is little question about the incredible power of Bruce
Springsteen's work as a particularly transformative art, as a
lyrical and musical fusion that never shies away from sifting
through the rubble of human conflict. As Rolling Stone magazine's
Parke Puterbaugh observes, Springsteen 'is a peerless songwriter
and consummate artist whose every painstakingly crafted album
serves as an impassioned and literate pulse taking of a
generation's fortunes. He is the foremost live performer in the
history of rock and roll, a self-described prisoner of the music he
loves, for whom every show is played as if it might be his last.'
In recent decades, Puterbaugh adds, 'Springsteen's music developed
a conscience that didn't ignore the darkening of the runaway
American Dream as the country greedily blundered its way through
the 1980s' and into the sociocultural detritus of a new century
paralysed by isolation and uncertainty. Bruce Springsteen, Cultural
Studies, and the Runaway American Dream reflects the significant
critical interest in understanding Springsteen's resounding impact
upon the ways in which we think and feel about politics, religion,
gender, and the pursuit of the American Dream. By assembling a host
of essays that engage in interdisciplinary commentary regarding one
of Western culture's most enduring artistic and socially
radicalizing phenomena, this book offers a cohesive, intellectual,
and often entertaining introduction to the many ways in which
Springsteen continues to impact our lives by challenging our minds
through his lyrics and music.
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