Springsteen Fandom
eBook - PDF

Springsteen Fandom

"A Lifetime Conversation"

  1. 161 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Springsteen Fandom

"A Lifetime Conversation"

About this book

Springsteen Fandom: "A Lifetime Conversation" explores the experience of the Bruce Springsteen musical fandom as a mutual exchange between artist and audience.

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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Information

Year
2026
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9798765141021

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1 “A means of communication”: Making Connections
  4. 2 “Those who’ve come before”: Connecting Traditions
  5. 3 “They’re in the show”: Addressing Audiences
  6. 4 “A tale begins”: Telling Stories
  7. 5 “Who are we and where is home?”: Building Communities
  8. 6 “It’s going to matter to somebody”: Shaping Biographies
  9. 7 “They’re here”: Summoning Ghosts
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index

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