Reading the boss
Subtitle: interdisciplinary approaches to the works of Bruce Springsteen
By: edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780739145357; 9780739145364
Subjects: Music and philosophy; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Bard of Asbury Park / Irwin Streight and Roxanne Harde; title: Reading influence. Endlessly seeking : Bruce Springsteen and Walker Percy's quest for possibility among the ordinary / June Skinner Sawyers ;  'On blessing avenue' : faith, language, and a search for meaning in the works of Bruce Springsteen and Walker Percy / Michael Kobre ; 'The Flannery O'Connor of American rock' / Irwin Streight; title: Reading place. 'Deliver me from nowhere' : place and space in Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska / Frank P. Fury ; Tracking place and identity in Bruce Springsteen's tracks / Mike Cadó and Teresa V. Abbruzzese; title: Reading gender. 'Who's that girl?' : nostalgia, gender, and Springsteen / Kenneth Womack ; Growin' up to be a nothing man : masculinity, community, and the outsider in Bruce Springsteen's songs / Ann V. Bliss ; 'Like a vision she dances' : re-visioning the female figure in the songs of Bruce Springsteen / Liza Zitelli; title: Reading philosophy and religion. A covenant reversed : Bruce Springsteen and the promised land / Stephen Hazan Arnoff ; Ironic revelation in Bruce Springsteen / Peter J. Fields ; 'I'll work for your love' : Springsteen and the struggle for authenticity / John J. Sheinbaum ; 'May your hope give us hope' : the rising as a site of mourning / Roxanne Harde.