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The career of Bruce Springsteen has provoked much critical musing since the artist's arrival on a moribund mid-1970s rock scene with albums like THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE and BORN TO RUN. Music writer Jimmy Guterman's essays on one of the preeminent figures in late-20th-century rock history explore the impact of Springsteen's uniquely humane songwriting style, as well as examining the role of his longtime musical associates, the E Street Band, in interpreting and translating those songs for a mass audience. For Guterman, Springsteen is the benchmark against which many of his contemporaries, such as John Mellencamp and Tom Petty, measure up and are found wanting. Consistently energizing both his audience and his fellow musicians, the singer is represented here as the American Everyman, by turns puzzled, profound, and polarizing, often misunderstood (misguided Republicans adopted his profoundly critical "Born in the U.S.A." as a mid-'80s election anthem), but impossible to ignore.
| Size | | Length: | 246 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Editor and journalist Jimmy Guterman...poignantly expresses his own love of the man and his music in this warm, absorbing collection of seven essays....Yet for all his admiration, Guterman doesn't get lost in minutiae or mired in nostalgia....With subtle wit, real emotion and exactly the right combination of journalistic street smarts and music fan geekiness, [he] has scored a success."
Publishers Weekly (05/30/2005)
"No one has written better about the texture and rhythm of a Springsteen show than Jimmy Guterman....A collection of loose, energetic essays that, as they meander and overlap, add up to a passionate, highly subjective portrait of the artist in relation to his public."
New York Times Book Review (07/03/2005)
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