The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen enjoys a popularity that has transcended generations. His 1975 album, Born to Run, was voted the best album of all time in a recently published Zagat survey, his 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., spawned seven Top Ten singles while selling 11 million copies, and his 2002 album, The Rising, was regarded by many critics as the most poignant artistic reaction to 9/11. Springsteen, now 55, has evolved from an over-hyped version of the "next Bob Dylan, " to the "future of rock and roll" in the mid-1970s, to a pop culture icon in Reagan America, to a 21st-century populist voice. His career has been covered many times over, and yet many of the complexities and apparent contradictions of Springsteen's music remain unresolved, such as Springsteen's hard-rock influenced musical background, his movement from themes of rebellion and isolation in his early work to those of a more populist complexion later on, and his contribution in the 1980s to a conservative patriotism-despite his albums' close association with the music and ideas of Woody Guthrie. Springsteen presents an extremely compelling subject as a result of all these influences and epochs, and it is through his music that we can find new ways of understanding his art, his life, and even his country.