NY Times Cites Prof. David Gellman's Paper on Bruce Springsteen

November 2, 2014

"Having been securely canonized at this stage in his career, Bruce Springsteen has increasingly become the subject of popular and scholarly literature," writes John Williams in today's New York Times.  "Academics have compared the Boss’s themes and techniques to a wide range of American writers. For a collaborative cultural study in 2012, David N. Gellman, a history professor at DePauw University in Indiana, contributed a paper subtitled 'Spring­steen, Richard Ford, and the American Dream'."

Professor Gellman wrote, as the Times notes, "Springsteen’s characters, like Ford’s, live in an empire where they exercise little power except to perpetrate, or permit, some chilling act of violence."

Access the piece, "Born to Read," at the newspaper's website.

David Gellman contributed to Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream and Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul: Essays on the Songs and Influence of a Cultural Icon. Dr. Gellman authored Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827 and is co-author of American Odysseys: A History of Colonial North America, and co-edited Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877, which was listed as one of 2004's "Outstanding Academic Titles" by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

Richard Ford visited DePauw in April 2007.  Read more here.

Source: New York Times

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