Racing in the Street

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.

Auteur

June Skinner Sawyers is an editor and journalist who writes frequently about music and the arts. She is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, for which she wrote a nightlife column for two years, and is the editor of several literary anthologies. Martin Scorsese entered a seminary in 1956, but then opted to channel his passions into film. He is the acclaimed director of such classic films as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas.

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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 Bruce Springsteen: The Advocate Interview (The Advocate)Bryan K. Garman The Ghost of History: Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, and the Hurt Song (Popular Music and Society)Jim Cullen Tom Joad's Children The Bars of Graceland (from Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition)Tom Perrotta from The WishbonesNicholas Dawidoff The Pop Populist (New York Times Magazine)Mikal Gilmore Bruce Springsteen's America (from Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll)R. C. Ringer Asbury Park (from Shore Stories: An Anthology of the Jersey Shore)Sheri Tabachnik, Joseph Sapia, and Kelly Jane Cotter Father of Bruce Springsteen Dies at 73 (Asbury Park Press)PART THREE: REBIRTH Pellegrino d'Acierno Roll Over, Rossini: Italian American Rock 'n' Roll After the Long Good-bye: From Frank Zappa to Bruce Springsteen and Madonna (from The Italian American Heritage)Will Percy Rock and Read: Will Percy Interviews Bruce Springsteen (DoubleTake)Nadine Epstein Asbury Park, My Hometown (Christian Science Monitor)Frederick Reiken from The Lost Legends of New JerseySamuele F. S. Pardini Bruce Springsteen's "American Skin" (Artvoice)Bob Crane from A Place to Stand: A Guide to Bruce Springsteen's Sense of PlaceNick Hornby Thunder Road (from Songbook)Colleen Sheehy Springsteen: Troubadour of the HighwayAlan Light The Missing (The New Yorker)A. O. Scott The Poet Laureate of 9/11: Apocalypse and Salvation on Springsteen's New Album (Slate)Kevin Coyne His Hometown (New Jersey Monthly)Eric Alterman from It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce SpringsteenChristopher Phillips The Real WorldAfterword by Robert Santelli Web Sites Credits Bibliography