Jim Cullen

Bridge and Tunnel Boys

Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen are among the most well-known and beloved figures in American popular music in the past half-century. The two, friends over many decades, have often been compared. But in this study, cultural historian Jim Cullen systematically traces the uncanny parallels in their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781978835221
• ISBN-10: 1978835221
• Artikelnr.: 67612191

Autorenporträt

JIM CULLEN teaches at the recently founded upper division of Greenwich Country Day School. His many books include 1980: America's Pivotal Year;  Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition; and  Those Were the Days: Why "All in the Family" Still Matters, all from Rutgers University Press.   

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: You See? I Was Right!    
Author's Note I: Gauging Success    
Author's Note II: Historical Records    
INTRODUCTION
Margin and Center
1 NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
The Emergence of the Metropolitan Sound in Popular Music
2 HARD TIMES, BOOM YEARS
Social Mobility and Its Discontents, 1949-1971
3 POINTS OF DEPARTURE
Finding Their Way, 1972-1974
4 ARRIVALS
Movin' Out--and Back, 1975-1977 
5 THROUGH GLASS, DARKLY
Years of Growth and Uncertainty, 1978-1982 
6 RIGHT TIME
The Stars Align, 1983-1986 
7 FAMILY FEUDS
Domestic Politics, 1986-1995   
8 HOMING
Legends Take Root, 1996-Present   
CONCLUSION
Swift Currents   
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index