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　　In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard

professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, 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.

With wisdom and a unique personal perspective, Coles explores

Springsteen’s words as contemporary American poetry, and offers

firsthand accounts of how people interact with them: A trucker

listens to “Blinded by the Light” during long, lonely nights and

reminisces about his mother; a schoolteacher is astonished when a

usually silent student offers a comparison between “Nebraska” and

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; a policeman responds to “American Skin

(41 Shots),” reflecting on his own role in his family and

community. As these people, and others, candidly discuss the

meaning Springsteen’s words have in their lives, Coles listens and,

with the special insight and compassion that are the trademarks of

his art, sheds new light on “The Boss,” removing the legendary

American rock musician from fan-filled stadiums and placing the

poet in a greater social, cultural, and philosophical context.

Coles sees Springsteen as a representative of a uniquely American

documentary tradition—as a sing-ing and traveling poet who does not

simply embody the culture of which he is a part but fully engages

it, interacting with its people and creating a conversation that

has helped to shape a distinct way of looking at, and living,

American life today.

I.  Conversations and Songs About Life

II.  A Songwriter's Traveling Companions

III.  Americans Tell of Hearinga Singing Poet of the

People

　 A Schooheacher, "The E Street Shuffle," and "Nebraska"

　"Saint in the City": A Lawyer

　"My Drivin' Life": A Truck Driver and "Blinded by the Light

　"Darkness on the Edge of Town": A Schoolteacher and Race

　"Factory": "Prove It All

Night"　     

A PolicemanTakes on the "4-1 Shots" oF

　 "American Skin,""]ohnny 99"

　 "Born in the U.S.A.": A Businessman

　 Crisscrossing the Country

　 "Glory Days" and "Tunnel of Love":

Thinking of My Husband, a Businessman. Traveling

　"My Hometown": A Student of MineWhistling

　Bruce Between Classes

　"Ifl Should Fall Behind": A Grandmother and Her Family

IV.  Afterword

　Song Lyric Credits

　Index

　　Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist, is the Pulitzer

Prize–winning author of Children of Crisis as well as The Spiritual

Life of Children, Women of Crisis, and Lives of Moral Leadership,

among many other books. A professor of psychiatry and medical

humanities at the Harvard Medical School, he is also the James Agee

Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. He lives in

Massachusetts.

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　　These are the voices of Bruce Springsteen?s

America?individuals young and old, from various parts of a nation,

linking themselves in words of reminiscence, reflection, assertion

with certain of a singer?s songs. In their sum as listeners, these

Americans provide a chorus of resonance to an outpouring of

engaging, stirring, inspiring music sent during our recent times

toward the many who hearken to the summons of a troubadour.?

　　Robert Coles, from Bruce Springsteen?s America

　　People listen and reflect on their lives and on the words of

Bruce Springsteen:

　　He?s a writer and a teacher; and he?s a politician . . . urging

people who stop and listen toward action. He?s a born storyteller?a

novelist who?s out there holding up right and wrong, and drawing

the line between the two.?

　　a businessman on ?Born in the U.S.A.?

　　You can close your eyes and hear someone read his words, with no

music, and you know it?s him talking. . . . He speaks to you as if

you were in the same room, and he?s telling you something about

life, and people, and what goes on with us, when we?re working side

by side.?

　　a woman on ?Glory Days? and ?Tunnel of Love?

　　I?ve listened to Springsteen while I?m flying over America. . . .

The time whizzes by?I?m in another world. . . . Actually, I guess I

am on top of the world, sitting in that airplane, literally?but

hearing Springsteen you go further up. Listening to him talk about

the people left behind, the ones who are way down when it comes to

dollar bills and jobs, you realize how lucky you are, having the

life that?s yours.?

　　a college student on ?My Hometown?

　　That?s his great specialty, taking the measure of people and

putting them . . . on the card table, giving them a close

look-over. . . . He?s out there . . . taking in what?s going on for

us folks here in this America.?

　　a policeman on ?American Skin (41 Shots)? and ?Johnny 99?

　　He?s up there on the heights of American storytelling with those

lyrics.?

　　a schoolteacher on ?The E Street Shuffle? and ?Nebraska?

　　From the Hardcover edition. -- Review

书籍介绍

In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, 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.

With wisdom and a unique personal perspective, Coles explores Springsteen’s words as contemporary American poetry, and offers firsthand accounts of how people interact with them: A trucker listens to “Blinded by the Light” during long, lonely nights and reminisces about his mother; a schoolteacher is astonished when a usually silent student offers a comparison between “Nebraska” and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; a policeman responds to “American Skin (41 Shots),” reflecting on his own role in his family and community. As these people, and others, candidly discuss the meaning Springsteen’s words have in their lives, Coles listens and, with the special insight and compassion that are the trademarks of his art, sheds new light on “The Boss,” removing the legendary American rock musician from fan-filled stadiums and placing the poet in a greater social, cultural, and philosophical context. Coles sees Springsteen as a representative of a uniquely American documentary tradition—as a sing-ing and traveling poet who does not simply embody the culture of which he is a part but fully engages it, interacting with its people and creating a conversation that has helped to shape a distinct way of looking at, and living, American life today.

From the Hardcover edition.