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Description
Bruce Springsteen's music has directly inspired, influenced, and uplifted millions of devoted fans, who hold a special place in their hearts and minds for his work. This title contains an analysis of Springsteen's best known hits and his most obscure songs, comparisons to other important works of American culture.
Masciotra's readings are insightful, even brilliant at times. ...Masciotra argues in Working on a Dream, by way of painstaking dissections of Springsteen's lyrics, his stories are in the deepest sense about a nation that systematically subverts itself: undermines its communities, isolates citizens from one another, exercises its power recklessly, and destroys the sense of solidarity that is so crucial to a healthy society.
Make no mistake about it, Masciotra is a complete Springsteen devotee, but even if you are not a fan there is still much of interest in this finely detailed and intensely written volume.Generally adopting a thematic rather than a strictly chronological or biographical approach, Masciotra anchors his politics firmly to the left and finds the love, anger, despair and hope so often present in Springsteen's work an invaluable guide to both understanding and changing the lot of those presently either despised or rendered invisible in the heart of the American dream....Unlike the all too clever, intentionally shallow and gossip-obsessed rubbish that we generally get, this is musical journalism definitely worth reading.
The book leaves you with hope that music can challenge people and even change situations.
Exemplary beyond any literary doubt and quite possibly the finest Springsteen book I've ever read.
David Masciotra is a political columnist with the Herald News in Joliet, IL. On the web, he has written for PopMatters and Nerve, and lives in Dyer, Indiana.
Masciotra's readings are insightful, even brilliant at times. ...Masciotra argues in Working on a Dream, by way of painstaking dissections of Springsteen's lyrics, his stories are in the deepest sense about a nation that systematically subverts itself: undermines its communities, isolates citizens from one another, exercises its power recklessly, and destroys the sense of solidarity that is so crucial to a healthy society.
Make no mistake about it, Masciotra is a complete Springsteen devotee, but even if you are not a fan there is still much of interest in this finely detailed and intensely written volume.Generally adopting a thematic rather than a strictly chronological or biographical approach, Masciotra anchors his politics firmly to the left and finds the love, anger, despair and hope so often present in Springsteen's work an invaluable guide to both understanding and changing the lot of those presently either despised or rendered invisible in the heart of the American dream....Unlike the all too clever, intentionally shallow and gossip-obsessed rubbish that we generally get, this is musical journalism definitely worth reading.
The book leaves you with hope that music can challenge people and even change situations.
Exemplary beyond any literary doubt and quite possibly the finest Springsteen book I've ever read.
David Masciotra is a political columnist with the Herald News in Joliet, IL. On the web, he has written for PopMatters and Nerve, and lives in Dyer, Indiana.