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Springsteen, Bruce (1949—)
Bruce Springsteen has placed himself in a lineage of folk and popular musicians, including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, who have sought to effect social change. An acc...
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Critical Essay by Peter Knobler with Greg Mitchell
Bruce Springsteen … has been hiding in New Jersey writing these incredible songs…. [He] can be easily dismissed as "justanotherD...
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Critical Essay by Henry Edwards
A good part of Springsteen's appeal stems from the words he sings. In his most recent engagements, he has commenced his shows with "Thunder Road," ...
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Critical Essay by Nik Cohn
Objectively, I know that Springsteen is faking. He is only striking postures, drumming up teen dreams by numbers, and his lyrics are quite absurdly inflated. But I fall for ...
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Critical Essay by Jay Cocks
[Springsteen's] music is primal, directly in touch with all the impulses of wild humor and glancing melancholy, street tragedy and punk anarchy that have made rock t...
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Critical Essay by Jim Miller
Springsteen conveys a timeless world of perpetual youth, where all the archetypal characters of the rock 'n' roll world find a home. In the process, he makes...
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Critical Essay by Paul Williams
[Springsteen and the E Street Band] are doing for the seventies what Liverpool's Beatles did to the sixties: bringing rock and roll music back from the edge of o...
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Critical Essay by Richard Williams
It could be ten summers ago, a sunny truant afternoon … transfixed by "Freewheelin'" marvelling that this guy named Dylan could articulat...
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Critical Essay by Peter Knobler
You think of Bruce Springsteen as a guy who can take care of himself in a scuffle, who would intimidate his way out of a fight rather than duke it out. Just nobody mess...
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Critical Essay by Susan Hill
"Born To Run" isn't merely a nerveless fusion of the best pop tenor sax since Junior Walker, passionately penetrating lead, and some of rock's ...
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Critical Essay by Dave Marsh
Bruce Springsteen is the last of rock's great innocents. There can never be another quite like him. (pp. 6-7)
It was Bruce Springsteen's fate to become the k...
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Critical Essay by Ariel Swartley
I'm going to be a sucker for someone who takes rock and roll as a religion, and romanticizes the hell out of mundane details. For someone who says "Spark...
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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its na...
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Critical Essay by Michael Watts
[Bruce Springsteen is] not just another good version of an old product, but a new genius in our midst, the artist we've been waiting for in these long doldrum ye...
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Critical Essay by Robert Ward
[Joy] is perhaps the real secret of Bruce Springsteen's art. Springsteen loves the world: the pimps, hustlers, humbug, tomfoolery, switchblade knives and kisses un...
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Springsteen, Bruce (1949—)
Critical Essay by Peter Knobler with Greg Mitchell
