Louis P. Masur chairs the American Studies program at Trinity College (CT) and is the author of Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision (Bloomsbury Press, 2009).
Features
Thursday, March 8 2012
Bruce Springsteen Tries to Discover How We Can Survive These Hard Times
Wake up. An alarm is sounding. A siren. A pulsing guitar fixes our attention and Bruce Springsteen propels us on a journey -- musical, lyrical, spiritual, confrontational -- to discover how we can survive these hard times, these dying times.
Monday, September 21 2009
Bruce Springsteen: Still Going Strong at Age 60
The key to his success is that Springsteen believes in what he does, but doesn’t try to live inside the rock ‘n’ roll fantasy that glorifies wealth, fame, and superstardom.
Reviews
Wednesday, August 5 2009
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll by Elijah Wald
If the world is divided into those who see forests and those who see trees, Wald is in love with every branch of the ramifying bush that is popular music.
Monday, July 13 2009
Protest Singer & To Everything There is a Season
Two recent books survey Seeger’s journey and grapple with the musician’s political and musical ideology.
