Racing In The Street

Informationen zum Autor Edited by June Skinner Sawyers Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 hereDave 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Racing in the StreetThe Springsteen Musical Family Tree Foreword by Martin Scorcese Acknowledgments A Note on Selections Chronology "Newark by the Sea" by Gene Lazo Maps Introduction PART ONE: GROWIN' UP Peter Knobler, with Greg Mitchell Who Is Bruce Springsteen and Why Are We Saying All These Wonderful Things About Him? (Crawdaddy!) Paul Williams Lost in the Flood John Rockwell Springsteen's Rock Poetry at Its Best (New York Times) Dave Marsh Bruce Springsteen: A Rock "Star Is Born" (Rolling Stone) Maureen Orth, Janet Huck, and Peter S. Greenberg Making of a Rock Star (Newsweek) Jay Cocks Rock's New Sensation: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock (Time) Lester Bangs Hot Rod Rumble in the Promised Land (CREEM) Ariel Swartley The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (from Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island) Dave Marsh Thunder Road (from Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story) PART TWO: GLORY DAYS Robert Hilburn Out in the Streets (Los Angeles Times) Don McLeese Abdicating the Rock 'n' Roll Pedestal: Bruce Springsteen Gets Down (Chicago Reader) Greil Marcus The Next President of the United States (New West) George F. Will Bruuuuuce T. Coraghessan Boyle Greasy Lake (from Greasy Lake & Other Stories) Bobbie Ann Mason from In Country James Wolcott The Hagiography of Bruce Springsteen (Vanity Fair) Simon Frith The Real Thing - Bruce Springsteen (from Music for Pleasure) Kevin Major from Dear Bruce Springsteen Jefferson Morley Darkness on the Edge of the Shining City: Bruce Springsteen and the End of Reaganism (New Republic) Jack Ridl Video Mama Andrew M. Greeley The Catholic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen Robert Santelli Twenty Years Burning Down the Road: The Complete History of Jersey Shore Rock 'n' Roll (from Backstreets: Sprin...

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Edited by June Skinner Sawyers

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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.

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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.

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Racing in the StreetThe Springsteen Musical Family Tree
Foreword by Martin Scorcese
Acknowledgments
A Note on Selections
Chronology
"Newark by the Sea" by Gene Lazo
Maps
Introduction

PART ONE: GROWIN' UP
Peter Knobler, with Greg Mitchell
Who Is Bruce Springsteen and Why Are We Saying All These Wonderful Things About Him? (Crawdaddy!)Paul Williams
Lost in the FloodJohn Rockwell
Springsteen's Rock Poetry at Its Best (New York Times)Dave Marsh
Bruce Springsteen: A Rock "Star Is Born" (Rolling Stone)Maureen Orth, Janet Huck, and Peter S. Greenberg
Making of a Rock Star (Newsweek)Jay Cocks
Rock's New Sensation: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock (Time)Lester Bangs
Hot Rod Rumble in the Promised Land (CREEM)Ariel Swartley
The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (from Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island)Dave Marsh
Thunder Road (from Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story)PART TWO: GLORY DAYS
Robert Hilburn
Out in the Streets (Los Angeles Times)Don McLeese
Abdicating the Rock 'n' Roll Pedestal: Bruce Springsteen Gets Down (Chicago Reader)Greil Marcus
The Next President of the United States (New West)George F. Will
BruuuuuceT. Coraghessan Boyle
Greasy Lake (from Greasy Lake & Other Stories)Bobbie Ann Mason
from In CountryJames Wolcott
The Hagiography of Bruce Springsteen (Vanity Fair)Simon Frith
The Real Thing - Bruce Springsteen (from Music for Pleasure)Kevin Major
from Dear Bruce SpringsteenJefferson Morley
Darkness on the Edge of the Shining City: Bruce Springsteen and the End of Reaganism (New Republic)Jack Ridl
Video MamaAndrew M. Greeley
The Catholic Imagination of Bruce SpringsteenRobert Santelli
Twenty Years Burning Down the Road: The Complete History of Jersey Shore Rock 'n' Roll (from Backstreets: Springsteen - The Man and His Music)Charles R. Cross
The Promise (Backstreets)Dave Barry
Glory Days (Miami Herald)Elizabeth Wurtzel
from Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in AmericaNeil Strauss
Springsteen Looks Back But Keeps Walking On (New York Times)Hope Edelman
Bruce Springsteen and the Story of Us (Iowa Review)Judy Wieder
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