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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. Â Contributors to Long
Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like
Greil Marcus and Gillian Gaar, and other noted Springsteen scholars
and fans such as A. O. Scott, Peter Ames Carlin, and Paul Muldoon.
They reveal how Springsteen’s albums served as the soundtrack to
their lives while also exploring the meaning of his music and the
lessons it offers its listeners. The stories in this collection
range from the tale of how “Growin’ Up” helped a lonely
Indian girl adjust to life in the American South to the saga of a
group of young Australians who turned to Born to Run to cope with
their country’s 1975 constitutional crisis. These essays examine
the big questions at the heart of Springsteen’s music,
demonstrating the ways his songs have resonated for millions of
listeners for nearly five decades. Â Commemorating the
Boss’s seventieth birthday, Long Walk Home explores
Springsteen’s legacy and provides a stirring set of testimonials
that illustrate why his music matters.
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of
Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight,
draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by
scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first
make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen and William
Shakespeare, carefully building the argument that both men offer
profound insight into the hungry human heart. Springsteen, they
argue, uses many Shakespearean themes such as the ties of blood and
friendship, commitment to country and community, the monsters of
lust and jealousy, vanity and power, and the hopeful pursuit of
real love. These themes lift his music beyond stories of characters
casing the Promised Land of America to universal matters of the
heart's truth wherever it is found. Then, the twelve chapters of
Reading the Boss, written by established and emerging scholars,
engage readers both critically and enthusiastically with central
issues in Bruce Springsteen's writing, as they read his
explorations of gender, place, religion, philosophy, and other
literary texts, notably the works of Walker Percy and Flannery
O'Connor. Driven by arguments grounded in a wide variety of
theoretical and critical positions, these essays offer a
comprehensive and accessible discussion of Springsteen's oeuvre,
from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to Working on a Dream that
will appeal to both specialist readers and Springsteen fans alike.
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of
Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight,
draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by
scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first
make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen and William
Shakespeare, carefully building the argument that both men offer
profound insight into the hungry human heart. Springsteen, they
argue, uses many Shakespearean themes such as the ties of blood and
friendship, commitment to country and community, the monsters of
lust and jealousy, vanity and power, and the hopeful pursuit of
real love. These themes lift his music beyond stories of characters
casing the Promised Land of America to universal matters of the
heart's truth wherever it is found. Then, the twelve chapters of
Reading the Boss, written by established and emerging scholars,
engage readers both critically and enthusiastically with central
issues in Bruce Springsteen's writing, as they read his
explorations of gender, place, religion, philosophy, and other
literary texts, notably the works of Walker Percy and Flannery
O'Connor. Driven by arguments grounded in a wide variety of
theoretical and critical positions, these essays offer a
comprehensive and accessible discussion of Springsteen's oeuvre,
from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to Working on a Dream that
will appeal to both specialist readers and Springsteen fans alike.
Part reference guide, part handbook, part travel guide and part
resource in one portable volume, Bearing the People Away uses an
encyclopedia format geared toward the general reader. The entries
vary in length from brief sentences to several paragraphs. They
include major Clearance sites, major and minor figures associated
with the Clearances, Clearance-related sites outwith Scotland
(significant parts of the Scottish Diaspora as Canada, the United
States, Australia and New Zealand), places and historical events
with Clearance and or Highland connections, and recordings,
websites and relevant museums and organizations identified with the
Highland Clearances. June Skinner Sawyers is a Scots-born writer
who is based in Chicago, USA. She has written or edited more than
twenty books, many with a Scottish theme, including popular and
regional histories.
Anthology of popular fiction writers using the blues as a powerful
story-telling theme. The blues is a feeling. The blues is a way of
life. It is also the kind of music that has inspired countless
writers over many years. The stories in Best in Blues Fiction are
infused with the spirit of the blues; the characters invariably are
blues musicians themselves or are somehow enmeshed in the world of
the blues. This collection contains excerpts from novels and short
stories by major African-American writers and contemporary
wordsmiths. The stories evoke another place and time, of jook
joints and larger-than-life characters and the mysterious goings-on
at deserted crossroads at the toll of midnight. The spirit of
classic bluesmen such as Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, and Muddy
Waters fills its pages. The power of the storytelling presented
here matches the power of the music itself. Twenty-four stories
include: James Baldwin - "Going to Meet the Man" William Faulkner -
"That Evening Sun" Peter Guralnick - "Nighthawk Blues" Pete Hamill
- "A Blues for Yukido" Langston Hughes - "The Blues I'm Playing"
Albert Murray - "Train Whistle Guitar" Tom Piazza - "Charly Patton"
Alice Walker - "1955"
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