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Tramps Like Us

Author : Daniel Cavicchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190284323
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us written by Daniel Cavicchi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-29 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As rock critics have noted in the past, Bruce Springsteen's songs exist in a world of their own--they have their own settings, characters, words, and images. It is a world that even those who know only a handful of Springsteen's lyrics can instantly recognize, a world of highways and factories, loners and underdogs, hot rods and patrol cars. And it is a world that stretches far beyond the New Jersey state line. Indeed, Springsteen's attention to the ideals and struggles of ordinary Americans has significantly influenced American popular culture and public debate. As a rock-and-roll troubadour, "the Boss" speaks not only for his many fans but to them, and often with a directness or sincerity that no other performer can match. But what can be said of the fans themselves? Why and how do they relate to Springsteen's words and music? Based on three years of ethnographic research amid Springsteen's fans, and informed by the author's own experiences and impressions as a fan, Daniel Cavicchi's Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to a particular singer/songwriter and his songs, and of how these attachments function in people's lives. An "insider's narrative" about Springsteen fans--who they are, what they do, and why they do it--this book also investigates the phenomenon of fandom in general. The text oscillates between fans' stories and ideas and Cavicchi's own anecdotes, commentary, and analysis. It challenges the stereotypes of fans as obsessive, delusional, and even mentally ill, and explores fandom as a normal socio-cultural activity. Ultimately, this book argues that music fandom is a useful and meaningful behavior that enables us to shape identities, create communities, and make sense of the world--both Bruce's and our own.

Tramps Like Us

Author : Joe Westmoreland
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299194345
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us written by Joe Westmoreland and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tramps Like Us is a modern-day Huckleberry Finn. It's an all-American story about the search for home, for a better life, feeling like a refugee in one's own country. It's about creating a family from a group of misfits. It tells what it was like to come of age in the era between gay liberation and the beginning of the AIDS crisis.

Tramps Like Us Volume 14

Author : Yayoi Ogawa
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781598168761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us Volume 14 written by Yayoi Ogawa and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume of Tramps Like Us marks the end of Sumire and Momo but the beginning of Sumire and Takeshi, as Momo sheds his pet status and becomes Sumire's love.--From cover p. [4].

Born to Run

Author : Eric Meola
Publisher : Welcome Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933784083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Born to Run written by Eric Meola and published by Welcome Books. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This special edition of Born to run: the unseen photographs is limited to 1,350 copies, specially bound, encased in a cloth clamshell case, and signed by Eric Meola; This is copy number 269."

FM

Author : Richard Neer
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 1588360733
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book FM written by Richard Neer and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." –from FM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York–one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he’d have made the big time. Little did he know he’d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement’s flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventies–at stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and others–disc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.

Tramps Like Us Volume 1

Author : Yayoi Ogawa
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781595321398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us Volume 1 written by Yayoi Ogawa and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Sumire and Momo. Finally Momo sheds his pet status and becomes Takeshi, Sumire's love.

Long Walk Home

Author : Jonathan D. Cohen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978805284
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Long Walk Home written by Jonathan D. Cohen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music. Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus and Gillian Gaar, and other noted Springsteen scholars and fans such as A. O. Scott, Peter Ames Carlin, and Paul Muldoon. They reveal how Springsteen’s albums served as the soundtrack to their lives while also exploring the meaning of his music and the lessons it offers its listeners. The stories in this collection range from the tale of how “Growin’ Up” helped a lonely Indian girl adjust to life in the American South to the saga of a group of young Australians who turned to Born to Run to cope with their country’s 1975 constitutional crisis. These essays examine the big questions at the heart of Springsteen’s music, demonstrating the ways his songs have resonated for millions of listeners for nearly five decades. Commemorating the Boss’s seventieth birthday, Long Walk Home explores Springsteen’s legacy and provides a stirring set of testimonials that illustrate why his music matters.

Walk Like a Man

Author : Robert J. Wiersema
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1553658469
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Walk Like a Man written by Robert J. Wiersema and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are dozens of books about the Boss, exploring every facet of his career. So what's left to say? Nothing objective, perhaps. But when it comes to music, objectivity is highly overrated. Robert Wiersema has been a Springsteen fan since he was a teenager. By most definitions, he's a fanatic: following tours to see multiple shows in a row, watching set lists develop in real time via the Internet, ordering bootlegs from shady vendors in Italy. His attachment is deeper than fandom, though: he's grown up with Springsteen's music as the soundtrack to his life, beginning with his working-class youth in rural British Columbia and continuing on through dreams of escape, falling in love, and becoming a father. Walk Like a Man is liner notes for a mix tape, a frank and inventive blend of biography, music criticism, and memoir over the course of thirteen tracks. Like the best mix tapes, it balances joy and sorrow, laughter seasoning the dark-night-of-the-soul questions that haunt us all. Wiersema's book is the story of a man becoming a man (despite getting a little lost along the way), and of the man and the music that have accompanied him on his journey.

Tramps Like Us Volume 9

Author : Yayoi Ogawa
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781595324399
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us Volume 9 written by Yayoi Ogawa and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Sumire and Momo. Finally Momo sheds his pet status and becomes Takeshi, Sumire's love.

Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Marc Dolan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393084213
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll written by Marc Dolan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant biography of one of the greatest rock 'n' rollers, the America that made him, and the America he made. This smart, incisive biography traces Bruce Springsteen’s evolution from a young artist who wasn’t sure what he wanted to say to an acclaimed musician with a distinctive vision for a better society. Brilliantly analyzing and evoking Springsteen’s output, Marc Dolan unveils the pulsing heart of his music: its deep personal, political, and cultural resonances, which enabled Springsteen to reflect on his experiences as well as the world around him. The book is now updated with a new chapter on The Promise, Wrecking Ball, and the 2012 tour.

Tramps Like Us

Author : Daniel Cavicchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195118332
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us written by Daniel Cavicchi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three years of ethnographic research with fans, and informed by the author's own experiences, this is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form sustained attachments to Bruce Springsteen and his music, rooted in an exploration of the nature of fandom.

Tramps Like Us

Author : Daniel Cavicchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029055
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us written by Daniel Cavicchi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As rock critics have noted in the past, Bruce Springsteen's songs exist in a world of their own--they have their own settings, characters, words, and images. It is a world that even those who know only a handful of Springsteen's lyrics can instantly recognize, a world of highways and factories, loners and underdogs, hot rods and patrol cars. And it is a world that stretches far beyond the New Jersey state line. Indeed, Springsteen's attention to the ideals and struggles of ordinary Americans has significantly influenced American popular culture and public debate. As a rock-and-roll troubadour, "the Boss" speaks not only for his many fans but to them, and often with a directness or sincerity that no other performer can match. But what can be said of the fans themselves? Why and how do they relate to Springsteen's words and music? Based on three years of ethnographic research amid Springsteen's fans, and informed by the author's own experiences and impressions as a fan, Daniel Cavicchi's Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to a particular singer/songwriter and his songs, and of how these attachments function in people's lives. An "insider's narrative" about Springsteen fans--who they are, what they do, and why they do it--this book also investigates the phenomenon of fandom in general. The text oscillates between fans' stories and ideas and Cavicchi's own anecdotes, commentary, and analysis. It challenges the stereotypes of fans as obsessive, delusional, and even mentally ill, and explores fandom as a normal socio-cultural activity. Ultimately, this book argues that music fandom is a useful and meaningful behavior that enables us to shape identities, create communities, and make sense of the world--both Bruce's and our own.

Born to Run

Author : Bruce Springsteen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150114152X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Born to Run written by Bruce Springsteen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's half-time show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humour, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candour, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.

Tramps Like Us Volume 3

Author : Yayoi Ogawa
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781595321411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Tramps Like Us Volume 3 written by Yayoi Ogawa and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Sumire and Momo. Finally Momo sheds his pet status and becomes Takeshi, Sumire's love.

Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

Author : Larry Seeley
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162516467X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves written by Larry Seeley and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sloan wants a peaceful new life on his ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains but revenge and murder follow him.

American Lonesome

Author : Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807169471
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book American Lonesome written by Gavin Cologne-Brookes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s work and a moving account of how it offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential lonesomeness of modern life. Cologne-Brookes proposes that the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, which assesses the value of ideas and arguments based on their practical applications, provides a lens for understanding the diversity of perspectives and emotions encountered in Springsteen’s songs and performances. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy from William James to Richard Rorty, Cologne-Brookes examines Springsteen’s formative environment and outsider psychology, arguing that the artist’s confessed tendency toward a self-reliant isolation creates a tension in his work between lonesomeness and community. He considers Springsteen’s portrayals of solitude in relation to classic and contemporary American writers, from Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emily Dickinson to Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates. As part of this critique, he discusses the difference between escapist and pragmatic romanticism, the notion of multiple selves as played out both in Springsteen’s work and in our perception of him, and the impact of performances both recorded and live. By drawing on his own experiences seeing Springsteen perform—including on tours showcasing the album The River in 1981 and 2016—Cologne-Brookes creates a book about the intimate relationship between art and everyday life. Blending research, cultural knowledge, and creative thinking, American Lonesome dissolves any imagined barriers between the study of a songwriter, literary criticism, and personal testimony.

Dissonant Identities

Author : Barry Shank
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572675
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Dissonant Identities written by Barry Shank and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical "scenes" across the country. In Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank, himself a musician who played and lived in the Texas capital, studies the history of its popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities. While his focus is primarily on progressive country and rock, Shank also writes about traditional country, blues, rock, disco, ethnic, and folk musics. Using empirical detail and an expansive theoretical framework, he shows how Austin became the site for "a productive contestation between two forces: the fierce desire to remake oneself through musical practice, and the equally powerful struggle to affirm the value of that practice in the complexly structured late-capitalist marketplace."