Springsteen: A Lifetime Conversation - Hardcover

Pethes, Nicolas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3835357522 ISBN 13: 9783835357525

Publisher: Wallstein Verlag GmbH, 2024

Synopsis

Bruce Springsteen is a star with whom fans feel a special and personal relationship. How does he manage to address his audience so immediately? Bruce Springsteen has been a rock star for 50 years, with which fans feel a highly personal relationship. This is not only due to his precisely designed and musically versatile albums, which reflect the meaning of different life phases in their sequence and whose captivating songs include all genres of American pop music. Springsteen also founds his music and the messages associated with it on immediate contact with the audience: this special bond succeeds him through his concerts characterized by extreme physical intensity, his understanding of rock 'n'roll as a musical tradition, which, in addition to emphatic hymns, also the telling of personal stories, includes his committed statements to society. olitical Deband through its engagement with age and transience. The latter were also the central theme of the tour in 2023, whose stations Nicolas Pethes chooses as a guide. In this way, he pursues Springsteen's "lifetime conversation with my audience" and shows through numerous testimonies from fans that the idea of such communication between artist and audience is not a mere illusion. It is based on serious emotions and practices that Nicolas Pethes knowledgeable and entertaining shows.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wallstein Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3835357522
• ISBN 13: 9783835357525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200