Bruce Springsteen
The “Born to Run” conference
Here is the Asbury Park Press: The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch has issued a call for papers and panel abstracts for an academic conference devoted to the “life, work […]
“Fear’s a powerful thing. It can turn your heart black, you can trust. It’ll take your God-filled soul and fill it with devils and dust”
Luigi Mangione, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Hobsbawm, and “social banditry”
Bruce Springsteen has a song on his Wrecking Ball album called “Jack of All Trades.” The entire album is a critique of big capitalism in the wake of the 2008 recession. The song has a lyric that came to my […]
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Time to break this one out again. My first interpretation of the song is here. My addendum to my first interpretation is here. I also wrote about the song here.
Bruce Springsteen or Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Dave Masciotra compares Bruce Springsteen’s liberalism with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s progressivism: By the turn of the century, the New Jersey native had already established himself as a rock and roll legend. But his artistic reaction to 9/11 enhanced his importance. Less […]
Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz from a Jersey diner
The video was filmed at Roberto’s Freehold Grill in Freehold, NJ
Rutgers University Press teams with the Bruce Springsteen Archives for a new book series
Here is Publishers Weekly: Rutgers University Press has inked a publishing partnership with the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) to launch a new series. BSACAM is located at Monmouth University, not too far from Rutgers and […]
“A dream of life”
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Tim Walz: Springsteen fan
In case you missed it last night, Democratic VP presumptive nominee Tim Walz talked about a Springsteen concert he attended with Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro: As governor of Minnesota, Walz declared March 5, 2023 “Bruce Springsteen Day” in the state. […]
“I guess there’s just a meanness in this world”
John Haas, an American historian and regular Current contributor, recently offered some interesting thoughts about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the young man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump last weekend. Here is Haas: Kristi Noem at last night’s Republican convention speaking […]
Zach Bryan and Bruce Springsteen drop “Sandpaper”
It’s growing on me:
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Jeremy Allen White will play Springsteen in a film about Nebraska
Here is The Guardian: Jeremy Allen White looks set to swap his white t-shirt for a vest later this year, when he takes on the role of Bruce Springsteen for a new biopic, once shooting is completed on the fourth […]
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Springsteen at “Stand Up for Heroes”
Last night the Boss played acoustic versions of “Addicted to Love” (live debut); “Dancing in the Dark”‘; “Power of Prayer”; “Working on a Highway.” Here is Chris Jordan at the Asbury Park Press: The Boss is back. Bruce Springsteen surprised […]
Episode 122: “Springsteen, Joel, and the American Century”
In his new book Bridge & Tunnel Boys, historian Jim Cullen discusses how Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen represented what he calls “the metropolitan sound of the American century.” In this episode of the podcast, we talk with Cullen about how Joel […]
Monmouth University (NJ) will build a new building for The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music
Here is Chris Jordan at The Asbury Park Press: This building is born to educate. The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music announced on Wednesday, Oct. 18, that a new center on the campus of Monmouth University will […]
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Remembering our fallen heroes: