Springsteen Fandom: "A Lifetime Conversation"
Autor Dr Nicolas Pethesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mai 2026
Choosing significant stops of the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour as a narrative guideline, the book presents a thorough analysis of Springsteen's album conceptions, song lyrics, show rituals, and interviews. Based on a discussion of the ever-growing Springsteen scholarship, Pethes introduces artist-fan-communication as a notion that is not based on mere illusions but rather on actual emotions and practices.
For over 50 years, Bruce Springsteen has been a rock star with whom fans entertain a highly personal relationship. This is not only due to Springsteen's charismatic stage persona but also to the aesthetic conception of his music that the book explores based on Springsteen's own description of the relationship to his fans as a "lifetime conversation."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798765141007
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
1. "A means of communication": Making Connections
2. "Those who've come before": Connecting Traditions
3. "They're in the show": Addressing Audiences
4. "A tale begins": Telling Stories
5. "Who are we and where is home?" Building Communities
6. "It's going to matter to somebody": Shaping Biographies
7. "They're here": Summoning Ghosts
Bibliography
Index
2. "Those who've come before": Connecting Traditions
3. "They're in the show": Addressing Audiences
4. "A tale begins": Telling Stories
5. "Who are we and where is home?" Building Communities
6. "It's going to matter to somebody": Shaping Biographies
7. "They're here": Summoning Ghosts
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Nicolas Pethes critically explores how Bruce Springsteen and his fans have worked - and sometimes struggled - to bridge the divide between celebrity and audience. Drawing on meticulous research and exhaustive knowledge about the evolution Springsteen's music and performances over the past five decades, Pethes transforms our understanding of rock'n'roll community.
Pethes takes readers on a journey into the heart of fan culture. There is hardly a more rabid and committed fandom than Bruce Springsteen's global legion of adherents. Pethes affords readers a nuanced lens into the nature of Springsteen fandom, a culture that thrives on the rites of tradition, storytelling, and community.
Pethes compellingly frames the relationship between artist and audience as not merely a theoretical concept, but a genuine and, at times, personal experience. This book is a sophisticated and refreshing contribution to Springsteen studies.
Nico Pethes explores the themes that run throughout Bruce Springsteen's music and incisively describes how that body of work has sparked the creation of a fan community, where a deep love of Springsteen's music has brought fans together around the world.
Nico Pethes thoroughly examines the ongoing conversation Springsteen has with his fans, how it impacts the Springsteen fan community, and the powerful emotional connection many fans have with Springsteen and his music.
Pethes takes readers on a journey into the heart of fan culture. There is hardly a more rabid and committed fandom than Bruce Springsteen's global legion of adherents. Pethes affords readers a nuanced lens into the nature of Springsteen fandom, a culture that thrives on the rites of tradition, storytelling, and community.
Pethes compellingly frames the relationship between artist and audience as not merely a theoretical concept, but a genuine and, at times, personal experience. This book is a sophisticated and refreshing contribution to Springsteen studies.
Nico Pethes explores the themes that run throughout Bruce Springsteen's music and incisively describes how that body of work has sparked the creation of a fan community, where a deep love of Springsteen's music has brought fans together around the world.
Nico Pethes thoroughly examines the ongoing conversation Springsteen has with his fans, how it impacts the Springsteen fan community, and the powerful emotional connection many fans have with Springsteen and his music.