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TITLE: “RUNAWAY AMERICAN DREAM:LISTENING TO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN”
AUTHOR (S): JIMMY GUTERMAN
PUBLISHER: DA CAPO PRESS
YEAR: 2005
PAGES: 246
MEASURES: 9” x 6” x 1”
WEIGHT: APPROX. 13 OZ.
CONDITION: THIS HAS BEEN STORED IN MY SMOKE FREE APT. IT WILL MAIL OUT INSIDE A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE IN A PADDED MAILER. NICE CLEAN STRAIGHT EDGES, NO STAINS, WRITING, TEARS ETC. (SEE PHOTOS). BRAND NEW THIS HAS BEEN ON MY SHELF SINCE I BROUGHT IT HOME. RULER USED TO SHOW SIZE OF BOOK. THERE IS A COUPLE OF PAGES WHERE THE CORNERS GOT SLIGHTLY BENT (SEE PHOTO)
MORE INFO: THIS IS A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SAGA, A MORE INTIMATE LOOK AT THE ACT OF LISTENING TO “TO THE BOSS”, NO PHOTOS. PAPERBACK
MORE INFO:
Over the course of a career now in its fourth decade, Bruce Springsteen has earned one of the most passionate, devoted followings in all rock 'n' roll. He's selling more records and concert tickets in his fifties than he sold in his twenties. Yet to many fans he remains an enigma. How has Springsteen produced such a consistent body of work and retained his currency while other top rock 'n' rollers have gone by the wayside? Jimmy Guterman, an accessible and entertaining music writer, has been writing about Springsteen since the late 1970s. In Runaway American Dream, he delves deep into dramatic and crucial moments from every phase of Springsteen's career, interpreting the songs and incisively commenting on the man and the culture at large to deliver a nuanced portrait of The Boss from the earliest days right up to Springsteen's 2005 album, Devils & Dust.
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Now in his 50s, the Boss, aka Bruce Springsteen, is selling more records and concert tickets than he did in his 20s—proving his fans' admiration runs deep. Editor and journalist Guterman (coauthor of The Worst Rock-and-Roll Records of All Time) poignantly expresses his own love of the man and his music in this warm, absorbing collection of seven essays. He takes readers through a song-by-song analysis of Springsteen recordings and concerts going back to the 1970s. He weighs the relative merits of song selection, concert length and venue, and duly notes the comings and goings of various band mates, wives and girlfriends. Yet for all his admiration, Guterman doesn't get lost in minutiae or mired in nostalgia. He chattily discusses such topics as the shift in Springsteen's music starting with Born to Run, as it became more traditional, mainstream "white rock'n'roll"; and Springsteen's uneasy back-and-forth between "pure artistic statements" like Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad and more "frankly commercial enterprises" like Born in the U.S.A. With subtle wit, real emotion and exactly the right combination of journalistic street smarts and music fan geekiness, Guterman has scored a success. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FROM BOOKLIST
As the subtitle makes clear, this is about Bruce Springsteen's music; its perspective is that of a selfroclaimed "literate fan." Throughout, Guterman addresses Springsteen's strength--his consistency--and weakness--his musical conservatism. Though the curtain rises on the controversial Vote for Change 2004 tour, when Springsteen and like-minded musicians crisscrossed the country for Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry, Guterman comments on Springsteen's body of work: the "friendliness" of Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., the optimism of Born to Run, and so forth. He discusses Bruce the Artist, who mostly pleases himself, and Bruce the Performer, everyman's favorite rock and roller, and how these "Two Bruces" have taken turns throughout his career, one releasing pure artistic statements, and the other blatantly commercial product. He dissects even such stinkers as Human Touch ("boring" and full of "genuinely not-good songs"), seeming surprised, indeed almost offended, that Springsteen could have a bad record in him. Still, Guterman points out, in almost every live performance, Springsteen lives up to impossibly high standards. A must for Bruce fans. June SawyersCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
"Examines just about every song Springsteen ever performed...[Guterman's] grasp of minutiae is mind-blowing." -- Washington Post Book World7/17/05"Guterman is comfortably colloquial, and he's done his research; it's refreshing." -- Newsday 7/25/05"With incisive depth, Guterman details Springsteen's strengths and weaknesses.... A thought-provoking work that's a must for fans of the Boss." -- Austin Chronicle 10/7/05"[Guterman] has been reporting about Springsteen since the '70s...[His] group of essays details the singer's enduring cultural impact." -- People7/25/05
About the Author
Jimmy Guterman is the author of five books about rock 'n' roll, among them 12 Days on the Road, Rockin' My Life Away, and the inexplicably best-selling The Worst Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time. He has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Boston Globe, Wired, and Salon. Born and raised in New Jersey, he lives in Massachusetts.
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