Events

For more than fifty years, Bruce Springsteen’s music has been a part of the lives of listeners around the world— a soundtrack of first concerts and road trips, of friendships and family traditions, of difficult moments, and of celebrations. Those experiences are an important part of the history that the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music seeks to preserve. Springsteen […]

Released on Bruce Springsteen’s stark 1982 album Nebraska, “Atlantic City” tells the story of a man caught between economic desperation and the promise of a new beginning. Against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City, Springsteen creates a world of gambling, organized crime, debt, love, and uncertainty, following a narrator who sees increasingly few options for building the life he wants.

For more than fifty years, Bruce Springsteen’s music has been a part of the lives of listeners around the world— a soundtrack of first concerts and road trips, of friendships and family traditions, of difficult moments, and of celebrations. Those experiences are an important part of the history that the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music seeks to preserve. Springsteen […]