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Cargando... Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce Springsteenpor Jimmy Guterman
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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 . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Unlike virtually every other Springsteen book, _Runaway American Dream_ chooses to ignore his personal life and focus on the music. The book reads like one long album review, in a good way; for a musician who is so well know for perfectionism both in the studio and on stage, there is surprisingly little in-depth discussion of the details of Springsteen's music. This book remedies the situation to some extent -- you'll find within its pages a discussion of Clarence Clemons's diminishing importance to the E Street sound and a brief proclaiming Max Weinberg to be the second greatest white rock and roll drummer of all time.
Although it isn't what you'd called a page-turner, I nevertheless went through this book in one sitting. The focus on the music itself combined with the breezy writing made _Runaway American Dream_ oddly propulsive. (