Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul: Essays on the Songs and Influence of a Cultural Icon

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction: The Conscience of Rock ’n’ Roll
• DAVID GARRETT IZZO     
• Fanfare for the Common Man: Magic
• DANA SAWYER     
• In Concert: A Transcendental Celebration
• DAVID GARRETT IZZO     
• Songwriting and Political Awareness: The Development
• Springsteen’s Emotional Community
• ADAM ALIANO     
• From the “Badlands” to “The Promised Land”: How Past and Present America Has Affected the Lives of Springsteen’s Characters
• JASON W. FAULKNER     
• Queen of the Supermarket: Representations of Working Class Women
• LISA DELMONICO     
• The Virgin, the Whore, the Girl Next Door: Seeking the Definitive “Mary”
• KEITH FUDGE     
• Springsteen’s American Stories in Devils in Dust and The Seeger Sessions
• ROBERT MCPARLAND     
• Going Nowhere: Bruce, the Beatles, Neil Young, Talking Heads and Others
• DAVID GELLMAN     
• Ten Things You Don’t Know About Scholarship on Springsteen
• DENISE D. GREEN     
• Growin’ Up with Springsteen
• HERPREET KAUR GREWAL     
• “World Without Pity”: The Tragic Vision of Bruce Springsteen
• LINCOLN KONKLE     
• An Opera on the Turnpike: Musical Form and Narrative Myth in the Early Works
• BARRY LONG     
• Lost! Can We Find Our Way Back Home on Magic?
• LORRAINE MANGIONE     
• Let Me Show You What Love Can Do—The Messages of Working on a Dream
• DOUG MORRIS     
• The Key to the Universe: Springsteen, Masculinity, and the
• KATHERINE PARKIN     
• Evangelism from E Street: Brother Springsteen’s Salvation Show
• SUSAN WOGE     
• Here Everybody Has a Neighbor: Springsteen’s Narrative of Community
• APRIL LINDNER     
• “Highway Patrolman”: An Application of Sibling Theory and Research
• JONATHAN CASPI     
• “Mr. State Trooper, Please Don’t Stop Me”: The Image of Police in the Songs
• SUSAN HAMBURGER     
• John Wayne and Bruce Springsteen Staying Home: How Not Going to War Influenced the Careers of Two American Popular Icons
• LARS A. ROSSLAND     
• Long Walk Home: Nostalgia and the Retro Postmodern Artist
• ELIZABETH SEYMOUR     
• Growin’ Up: The Progression of Springsteen’s Music as It Relates to Erikson’s Theory of Development
• JIM AZAR     
• On the Edge
• STEVAN WEINE     
• Seeger, Dylan, and Springsteen: The Folk Tradition Alive and Well in America
• MARIANNE MURAWSKI     
• Springsteen’s Intimations of Mortality
• ALEX PITOFSKY     
• Springsteen: Growin’ Up, Growing Older: A Route Map for the Long Walk Home
• MELANIE HENWOOD     
• Discography     
• About the Contributors     
• Copyright Acknowledgments     
• Index