Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music: Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture

Contents

• Music examples
• Acknowledgments
• List of contributors
• Introduction: the rhetoric and social consciousness of Bruce Springsteen
• William I Wolff
• Part 1. Politics, fear, and society
• 1. Lost in the flood: Bruce Springsteen's political consciousness and the Vietnam War, 1968-2014
• Jonathan D. Cohen
• 2. "Youngstown": a local band's rebuke of Springsteen's representation of a city struggling to define itself after deindustrialization
• Sara Gulgas
• 3. Our Lady of E Street: the Boss's Virgin, 2002-2014
• Karen O'Donnell
• 4. "This turnpike sure is spooky": Springsteen and the politics of fear
• Jason Stonerook
• Part 2. Gender and sexual identity
• 5. American Beauty nomads?: ontological security and masculinized knowledge in uncertain times
• Pamela Moss
• Dialogues: Springsteen and women
• 6. The Promised Land: Springsteen's epic heterosexuality, late capitalism, and prospects for queer life
• Nadine Hubbs
• 7. Is there anybody alive out there? Growing up queer with Bruce
• Holly Casio
• 8. Who is Springsteen to his women fans?
• Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff
• Part 3. Toward a rhetoric of Bruce Springsteen
• 9. When words fail: nonlexical utterances and the rhetoric of voicelessness in the songs of Bruce Springsteen, 1975-1984
• Eric Rawson
• 10. "To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart": authenticity, community, and folk music in the recent work of Bruce Springsteen
• Owen Cantrell
• Dialogues: Springsteen, audience, and interpretation
• 11. "Bring 'em home!": the rhetorical ecologies of Devils & Dust
• Jason Schneider
• 12. Springsteen's stage success: the setlist and beyond
• Peter Chianca
• 13. "They don't just see some person with a guitar": Springsteen and rhetorical identification
• Scott Wagar
• Index