Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music: Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture (Routledge Studies in Popular Music)

Wolff is an assistant professor of communication studies and digital media at Saint Joseph’s University where he teaches courses on participatory culture, nonprofit communications, and digital storytelling. . His work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy;Transformative Works and Cultures; Technical Writing Quarterly and Computers & Composition. About the AuthorWilliam I

This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic. The collection engages Springsteen and popular music as his contemporary work is just beginning to be understood in terms of its impact on popular culture and music, applying new areas of inquiry to Springsteen and putting Springsteen fan writing within the same binding as academic writing to show how together they create a more nuanced understanding of an artist. Established and emergi

William I. . Wolff is an assistant professor of communication studies and digital media at Saint Joseph’s University where he teaches courses on participatory culture, nonprofit communications, and digital storytelling. His work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy;Transformative Works and Cultures; Technical Writing Quarterly and Computers & Composition