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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Well researched and a nice companion piece to the more authoritative (and Bruce-approved, warts and all) bio by Peter Ames Carlin. Most impressively, I was reminded that artists are guided and driven by the collective histories that haunt them, and the desire to continually attain and prove something - be it to someone else or themselves. Bruce is a restless spirit, always looking for a way to express something as perfectly as possible. Dolan captures that essence here and we see the how often the creative peaks and valleys coincided with the personal ones, and how - at times - it was the very longing for something Bruce didn't have that served as the pressure to create diamonds. The desire to break through as an artist, to break away from the legalities of the industry, the desire to settle down and have a home and a wife, the desire to be a father, the desire to be able to not run from intimacy, and to serve the global community in some meaningful way. All of these serve as mile markers in his career, and Dolan singles them out well. I've come away from this book and Carlin's biography feeling like I understand Springsteen much better, and if you are a fan (and I know plenty of you are decidedly not), you'll appreciate the insight here that illuminates not only the creative process, but the personal journey that fans have been invited to travel along on, not always aware of the impetus, but always eager to hear the sonic results.
... Springsteen was born in 1949, in Freehold, New Jersey, a small industrial town about which no one seems to have anything nice to say. His mother, Adele, was a legal secretary; his father, Doug, a second world war vet and high-school dropout, "didn't have a career", Dolan writes. "He had jobs." None of them was very congenial – cab driver, jail guard, assembly line worker at a rug mill – and Doug's simmering disappointment with life set the emotional tone for Springsteen's childhood. Years later, on stage, in front of sold-out arenas, Springsteen would describe his father's nightly ritual of turning off all the lights in the house and hunkering down at the kitchen table with a six-pack and his cigarettes. Sometimes Doug forced his son to join him. "No matter how long I sat there," he recalled, "I could never ever see his face." ...
This book takes us through Bruce Springsteen's life by tracing the cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped his music. Beyond his constant stylistic adaptations, Springsteen developed over the decades from expressing the voice of a guy from working class New Jersey to writing about the larger issues facing the country, including war, class disparity, and prejudice. The author draws on a range of new and little known sources, including hundreds of unreleased studio recordings and bootlegs of live performances, making this a reference for avid Springsteen fans as well as those interested in learning the stories behind his music. Combining political analysis, music history, and colorful storytelling, this book reveals how a gifted, ambitious community college dropout achieved superstardom and spent decades refining what he wanted his music to say. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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