Bruce Springsteen And The Promise Of Rock N Roll

Author : Marc Dolan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081354
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll written by Marc Dolan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and music of one of America's greatest rock artists, providing an overview and analysis of the cultural, political, and personal forces that influenced his music and led him to explore issues like war, class disparity, and prejudice.

Author : Marc Dolan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393084213
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll written by Marc Dolan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant biography of one of the greatest rock 'n' rollers, the America that made him, and the America he made. This smart, incisive biography traces Bruce Springsteen’s evolution from a young artist who wasn’t sure what he wanted to say to an acclaimed musician with a distinctive vision for a better society. Brilliantly analyzing and evoking Springsteen’s output, Marc Dolan unveils the pulsing heart of his music: its deep personal, political, and cultural resonances, which enabled Springsteen to reflect on his experiences as well as the world around him. The book is now updated with a new chapter on The Promise, Wrecking Ball, and the 2012 tour.

Author : James Hoag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781693011221
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of Rock & Roll - Bruce Springsteen written by James Hoag and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's All About the Music!"Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series.This is, like the others, a mini-biography of one the greatest of American performers and bands, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Come with me for a walk down memory lane as I review the life of Bruce Springsteen, and especially, the music that he produced. We'll visit each of his hits and find out how they came to be written or how they were recorded; and discuss any trivia that might be associated with the music. This book is about the man and the band, but even more importantly, it's about the music. This series is my way of honoring the people that have brought so much joy to our lives over the years.It is an unauthorized fan tribute.Bruce Springsteen has been writing and performing since the late Sixties. Starting out as most performers and song writers do by writing and playing wherever and whenever he could, he was the member of several bands before putting together what is, arguably, the best band in the business, The E Street Band.Success did not come immediately to Bruce Springsteen. The break though came in 1975 with a rocker called "Born to Run". From then on, everyone took Bruce seriously. The Chapters include: Introduction - My remembrances of Bruce Springsteen in general and a kick-off for the book.Early Life - A brief summary of his life before the music started.Making Music His Life - How did Bruce get started in the business?Asbury Park - This is where Bruce got his start.First Album - Was the first one a success? The second one?"Born to Run" - After this album, everyone took him seriously."Darkness on the Edge of Town" - He followed up with another classic."The River" - This was his first number one album, but certainly not his last."Born in the U.S.A." - The album that would truly make him a legend. How many singles did the album produce?Patti Scialfa - Love and marriage was not an easy road for Bruce."Live/1975-85" - The first box set in the history of the charts to debut at number one.Disbanding the E Street Band - Bruce goes it alone, at least for a little while.Bringing Them Back Together - In 1999, Bruce brought the E Street Band back together again and they did a Reunion tour.Politics - For the first time Bruce got behind a candidate for President: John Kerry.Supporting Barack Obama - Continuing his support of Democratic candidates, he is firmly behind Obama in 2008.E Street Band - a mini-tribute to the members of the band, both past and present.Legacy of Bruce Springsteen - Every Legends book has a Legacy section where we review the awards and contributions of the artist.Afterword - My closing thoughts.Grammy Awards - A list of the Grammy Awards won by Bruce and the Band.Discography - A list of the major albums and singles by Bruce Springsteen.

Author : Brian Hiatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787391215
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Springsteen written by Brian Hiatt and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of insightful stories from Springsteen's long career, Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs takes a detailed look at each and every one of Springsteen's album tracks, providing a unique look at this rock legend's method, as well as some of the many anecdotes and tales that are prolific in his long music history. Deeply researched, laced with insight from decades of fandom and original reporting, this book is an exhaustive and unique look at the writing, recording and significance of Springsteen's singular catalog of songs. Each album is discussed and then each song is examined in terms of lyrical meaning, placing in historical context where necessary or relevant. It's the first book to cover every officially released track, from hits to obscurities, from 1974's Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to 2014's High Hopes.

Author : Jimmy Guterman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786741295
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway American Dream written by Jimmy Guterman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a career now in its fourth decade, Bruce Springsteen has earned one of the most passionate, devoted followings in all rock 'n' roll. He's selling more records and concert tickets in his fifties than he sold in his twenties. Yet to many fans he remains an enigma. How has Springsteen produced such a consistent body of work and retained his currency while other top rock 'n' rollers have gone by the wayside? Jimmy Guterman, an accessible and entertaining music writer, has been writing about Springsteen since the late 1970s. In Runaway American Dream, he delves deep into dramatic and crucial moments from every phase of Springsteen's career, interpreting the songs and incisively commenting on the man and the culture at large to deliver a nuanced portrait of The Boss from the earliest days right up to Springsteen's 2005 album, Devils & Dust.

Author : Bruce Springsteen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150114152X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Run written by Bruce Springsteen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's half-time show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humour, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candour, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.

Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440684197
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racing in the Street written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.

Author : Peter Ames Carlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471112357
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce written by Peter Ames Carlin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wonderful...Carlin's book never shies from the details of this most enduring of American heroes. The divorces, cruelties, years in therapy and his antidepressant fuelled comeback of 2003 are all here' Sunday Times This sweeping biography of one of America's greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Springsteen himself. With unfettered access to the artist, his family and band members, acclaimed music writer Peter Ames Carlin presents an intimate and vivid portrait. 'A readable, expansive portrait of the New Jersey rocker that delves into his family background and personal life more than previous biographies' Sunday Telegraph 'The first serious Bruce Springsteen biography for 25 years. Carlin was granted unprecedented access to family, friends, management, even the Boss himself, enabling him to paint a vivid picture of the man, warts and all' Sunday Express 'A revealing portrait of a rock colossus… Peter Ames Carlin's new book is the first in 25 years to have been written with the co-operation of Springsteen. Previous biographies have tended towards closely argued adulation but Carlin has not been blinded by his access to Springsteen' Daily Telegraph 'One for the regular fan on the street...well written and jaw-dropping in its research...Weighty, fact focused, readable' Metro 'Painstakingly researched and based on - for the first time - interviews with Springsteen's family and friends as well as the Boss himself. To that extent it is the first authorised account for a decade...This is a warts-and-all account that includes Springsteen's flashes of temper when things didn't go his way…' Sunday Times

Author : William I. Wolff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372271
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music written by William I. Wolff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic. Covering musical and cultural developments, chapters primarily consider work Springsteen has released since 9/11—that is, released during a period of continued global unrest, economic upheaval, and social change—under the headings Politics, Fear and Society; Gender and Sexual Identity; and Toward a Rhetoric of Springsteen. The collection engages Springsteen and popular music as his contemporary work is just beginning to be understood in terms of its impact on popular culture and music, applying new areas of inquiry to Springsteen and putting Springsteen fan writing within the same binding as academic writing to show how together they create a more nuanced understanding of an artist. Established and emerging Springsteen scholars approach work from disciplines including rhetoric and composition, historical musicology, labor studies, American history, literature, communications, sociology, theology, and government. Offering context, critique, and expansive understanding of Springsteen and his work, this book contributes to Springsteen scholarship and the study of popular music by showing Springsteen’s broadening academic appeal as well as his escalating legacy on new musicians, social consciousness, and contemporary culture.

Author : Donald L. Deardorff
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810884275
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Springsteen written by Donald L. Deardorff and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music comment on their cultural, political, and even economic situation, reflecting technological advances, psychological concerns, religious feelings, and artistic trends of the times. Like other major musical artists, Bruce Springsteen’s work has reflected, revealed, and reacted to modern American realities over the course of his forty-year career. Since releasing his first record in 1973, Springsteen has sold more than a hundred million albums worldwide, played thousands of concerts, and won Grammy, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Academy awards. More importantly, however, he is one of the few twentieth-century singer-songwriters to serve as the voice of his generation, a defining artist whose works reflect the values, dreams, and concerns of many Americans. In Bruce Springsteen: American Poet and Prophet,Donald L. Deardorff II explores the works of “The Boss,” defining the exact nature of Springsteen’s cultural influence. With the release of seventeen studio albums, Springsteen’s influence and popularity spans multiple generations. Deardorff classifies and explains Springsteen’s remarkable reception as it evolved from small beginnings in the Jersey shore bars of the 1970s to worldwide fame today. This book thoughtfully considers the trenchant commentary Springsteen’s albums make on the mythology of the American Dream, working-class concerns, the changing character of American masculinity, the relationship between Americans and their government, the importance of social justice, and the evocation of an American spirit. Bruce Springsteen: American Poet and Prophet will appeal to more than just Springsteen fans. It describes Springsteen as an apt critic of his own culture, whose music paints literary portraits that uncover the realities of an American society constantly evolving, while striving toward its own betterment.