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Offers a portrait of Bruce Springsteen and the influence of his music on both the lives of ordinary Americans and on the American literary tradition, examining the meaning of his lyrics within a social, cultural, and philosophical context.
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In this book, Robert Coles, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impact Springsteen's work has had both on the lives of his audience and on this country's literary tradition. Coles places Springsteen in the pantheon of American artists - Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Percy, among others - who understood and were inspired by their "traveling companions in time," the ordinary people of their eras.
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