Our popular, monthly, virtual series, Conversations with our Curator, continues in May with author, Michael C. Gabriele discussing New Jersey Folk Revival Music: History & Tradition on May 14th. Register here.
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, announced today that choir registration for the second annual Move on Up Gospel Sing-Off begins on Friday, February 7 at noon and will end Monday, March 24 at 3pm. Move on Up! will take place on Saturday, May 10th at 2pm in Pollak Theatre on the […]
Join music journalists John Morrison and Josh Leidy for a multimedia presentation on the history of hip-hop culture and the cultural and technological evolution of sampling, followed by performances by Blue Hawk Records Student/Artists. Co-sponsored by the BSACAM and the Monmouth University Music and Theatre Arts Department Friday, February 7 at 7 p.m.Woods Theatre at Monmouth […]
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM) at Monmouth University is pleased to announce the second annual President’s Lecture on Music History and Contemporary America, to be held on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 3 p.m. in Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University, 400 Cedar Ave., […]
Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ, is located just a mile from the famed Jersey shore and down the road from where Bruce Springsteen lived as he wrote Born to Run.The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM; Springsteen’s official repository) and Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences are […]
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music has announced the date of its third annual American Music Honors event, to be held Saturday, April 26, 2025 at the Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J. American Music Honors aims to celebrate those artists who have demonstrated artistic […]
Following its February debut at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, Music America: Iconic Objects From America’s Music History will open to the public at GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi on Friday, Sept. 20. With close to 100 objects representing the best of American music, the exhibit – curated by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM) […]
Suki Lahav, the Israeli-born musician, lyricist, and poet who briefly joined the E Street Band in the mid-1970s, has passed away at the age of 74. A violinist on Born to Run—most notably heard on “Jungleland”—she contributed to the early sound of Bruce Springsteen’s breakthrough era. Lahav went on to become a major figure in […]
This World Piano Day, we are looking at a few of the artists that have played the keys for the E Street Band. Celebrated annually on the 88th day of the year to symbolize the 88 keys on a standard piano, World Piano Day is a global tribute to one of music’s most versatile and […]
In his 1984 hit, “Glory Days,” Bruce Springsteen sings, “I had a friend, was a big baseball player, back in high school.” Not only did Springsteen have friends who were baseball players, he himself has had a lifelong relationship with baseball—and softball. In honor of Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, we’re taking a look here […]
Today in the Curatorial Corner, we’re featuring a guest blog by author and educator Caroline Madden. Actor Timothée Chalamet may have recently dismissed opera and ballet as “outdated,”, but these art forms—along with musical theatre, plays, and more—are part of centuries-old storytelling traditions that we continue to enjoy and celebrate. These celebrations last year-round: every […]
The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has announced the honorees of its fourth annual American Music Honors event, to be held Saturday, April 18 on the campus of Monmouth University. The 2026 honorees are: Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Dr. Dre, The E Street Band, and The Doors. This year’s event will also feature a special posthumous […]
When Bruce Springsteen first introduced the song “American Land” during the Seeger Sessions tour in 2006, he was drawing on a much older immigrant tradition. Some point out that the song’s roots stretch back to a poem/song called “He Lies in the American Land,” written by an immigrant named Andrew Kovaly and recorded by Pete […]
An earlier Women’s History Month blog saw us chatting about the Women of E Street. Today, I want to highlight several costumes from our traveling exhibit, Music America, that help tell the story of women in American music. Each represents not just an artist, but a larger moment in American history—moments when women helped reshape […]
LONG BRANCH, N.J. (March 10, 2026) – The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music will open to the public on June 7, 2026. The region’s newest cultural venue, located on the campus of Monmouth University, has evolved from the home of the Bruce Springsteen archives into a national hub for programs, exhibits, concerts, scholarship, and […]
During Women’s History Month, we’re all encouraged to look more closely at stories that have lived too long in the margins of American history. That goes for us here at the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music. So this March, we’ll be out in the community sharing stories of the women whose creative, emotional, and […]
Today in the Curatorial Corner, we’re featuring a guest blog by Kelly C. Ruffel, Director of the County of Passaic’s Department of Cultural & Historic Affairs. On February 11, the Passaic County Board of County Commissioners, in collaboration with the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University, announced Born to Run at 50, a […]