Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music: Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture
- Editor: Wolff, William I.
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Contents
- Music examples
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Introduction: the rhetoric and social consciousness of Bruce Springsteen
- William I Wolff
- Part 1. Politics, fear, and society
- 1. Lost in the flood: Bruce Springsteen's political consciousness and the Vietnam War, 1968-2014
- Jonathan D. Cohen
- 2. "Youngstown": a local band's rebuke of Springsteen's representation of a city struggling to define itself after deindustrialization
- Sara Gulgas
- 3. Our Lady of E Street: the Boss's Virgin, 2002-2014
- Karen O'Donnell
- 4. "This turnpike sure is spooky": Springsteen and the politics of fear
- Jason Stonerook
- Part 2. Gender and sexual identity
- 5. American Beauty nomads?: ontological security and masculinized knowledge in uncertain times
- Pamela Moss
- Dialogues: Springsteen and women
- 6. The Promised Land: Springsteen's epic heterosexuality, late capitalism, and prospects for queer life
- Nadine Hubbs
- 7. Is there anybody alive out there? Growing up queer with Bruce
- Holly Casio
- 8. Who is Springsteen to his women fans?
- Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff
- Part 3. Toward a rhetoric of Bruce Springsteen
- 9. When words fail: nonlexical utterances and the rhetoric of voicelessness in the songs of Bruce Springsteen, 1975-1984
- Eric Rawson
- 10. "To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart": authenticity, community, and folk music in the recent work of Bruce Springsteen
- Owen Cantrell
- Dialogues: Springsteen, audience, and interpretation
- 11. "Bring 'em home!": the rhetorical ecologies of Devils & Dust
- Jason Schneider
- 12. Springsteen's stage success: the setlist and beyond
- Peter Chianca
- 13. "They don't just see some person with a guitar": Springsteen and rhetorical identification
- Scott Wagar
- Index