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...screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland - lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects - has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem. You can't help wanting a guy who knows the streets that well to live in the hood. As it turns out, the hood still lives in him. It's not just the enduring music of the Bronx in his voice (or in his jumpy cadences - when...
While Crossing the River is Wechsler’s first major American work, he authored five books while in East Germany. The subjects of these books ranged from general American history to the history of American music up to Bruce Springsteen...
...with their popular music any more than they want Fred Durst speaking in full sentences. Avril Lavigne's level of complexity and Alanis Morissette's version of irony will do just fine for the drive to the shore, thank you. The two legendary exceptions are Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Both have a poet's gift for turning common words into indelible images and a rock star's knack for churning out melodies that make their poetry subliminal. They bring the pain and the noise...
...gliding from note to note, phrase to phrase, and breath to breath in her monumental “Come Away with Me?” What about the inspirational post-September 11th rock anthems of “The Rising” by three-time Grammy Award winner Bruce Springsteen? What about the soulful, emotional, and mesmerizing musical journey of the groundbreaking album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, by Grammy Award winner Coldplay...
...Springsteen has succeeded in disseminating his art—not just because he works within a more commercial medium, but because he has made the compromises that a popular music career inevitably entails...