by Dave Marsh and Danny Alexander You might wonder, for good reason, why we are writing about Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball five months after its release. Some of the reasons have been personal. But there are better reasons why we’re speaking up now, and speaking in the way that we are. Part of it is that Read more...
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To Set Our Souls Free: A different view of Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball
Friday, August 10th, 2012Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Danny Alexander, Dave Marsh, Death to My Hometown, Easy Money, Jack of All Trades, Land of Hope and Dreams, music and politics, Rock & Rap Confidential, Rocky Ground, Shackled and Drawn, This Depression, We Are Alive, We Take Care of Our Own, Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball song, You Got It
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AUSTIN HOPES AND DREAMS
Monday, April 9th, 2012I wrote this for Rock & Rap Confidential, the (now online) newsletter about music and politics I’ve edited with Lee Ballinger for thirty years–we started right about this time of year, too, I think. I’ve said very little at RRC in recent months, and this topic (suggested by Lee) seems a good place to get Read more...
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MIGHTY MIGHTY, SPADE AND WHITEY: Clarence and Bruce, Friendship and Race
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Clarence Clemons, said both my daughter and Bruce Springsteen this week, passed through his life doing exactly what he wanted to do. Bruce said the rest, which amounted to admitting that you can’t really do that, and the result of trying to is confusion and turbulence and discomfort and illusion. Except when it works. Then Read more...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and race, Clarence Clemons, E Street Band, Race and music, white people and racism, white supremacy
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