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SUMMARY:Summer Concert Series: Jake Thistle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free summer concert series presented by the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music and Asbury Audio\, running every Thursday evening from 6–7:30 PM\, July 16 through August 20\, on the Klose Amphitheater outside the Center. \nThe Center is open until 8 PM on Thursdays\, so guests are welcome to visit the museum before the show (museum admission required; concerts are free). \nConcerts are free and open to the public — no registration required. All performances are weather permitting. \nPlease bring your own chair or blanket.
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/summer-concert-series-jake-thistle/
LOCATION:Klose Amphitheater\, 382 Cedar Ave\, Long Branch\, NJ\, 07740\, United States
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Our Curator - Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run (2025) with Peter Ames Carlin
DESCRIPTION:Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run (2025) \nPre-register here: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/1EI9qSmhRSC9SxC3rreoCA \nConversations with our Curator” is a free\, monthly web series featuring BSCAM Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Melissa Kozlowski\, in conversation with researchers and writers exploring new perspectives in American music history. Audience Q&A welcome. 
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/conversations-with-our-curator-tonight-in-jungleland-the-making-of-born-to-run-2025-with-peter-ames-carlin/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Our Curator - Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships\, Airplay\, and the Art of Rock Promotion (2025) with Paul Rappaport
DESCRIPTION:Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships\, Airplay\, and the Art of Rock Promotion (2025) \nPre-register here: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/BFUkN2syRVmtEFKoWt1EbA \nConversations with our Curator” is a free\, monthly web series featuring BSCAM Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Melissa Ziobro\, in conversation with researchers and writers exploring new perspectives in American music history. Audience Q&A welcome. 
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/conversations-with-our-curator-gliders-over-hollywood-airships-airplay-and-the-art-of-rock-promotion-2025-with-paul-rappaport/
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SUMMARY:Bruce Springsteen and Monmouth: Music\, Memory\, and the Making of an American Icon
DESCRIPTION:Few artists are more closely identified with New Jersey than Bruce Springsteen\, and few places played a more important role in his early career than Monmouth College\, now University. This 45-minute illustrated presentation by Director of Curatorial Affairs Melissa Kozlowski explores Springsteen’s remarkable journey from Jersey Shore clubs to international acclaim\, with a focus on his longstanding relationship with Monmouth—from his performances on campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the establishment of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music\, home to his official archives. Through rare photographs\, archival materials\, music\, and historical context\, discover how Springsteen’s life\, songwriting\, and enduring legacy intersect with the University and the cultural history of New Jersey.
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/bruce-springsteen-and-monmouth-music-memory-and-the-making-of-an-american-icon/
LOCATION:Powell Soundstage\, 382 Cedar Ave\, Long Branch\, NJ\, 07740\, United States
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Our Curator - The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music (2026) with Colin Asher
DESCRIPTION:In American popular music\, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music [W. W. Norton & Company; June 30\, 2026; $29.99 hardcover]\, Colin Asher\, author of a critically acclaimed biography of Nelson Algren\, Never a Lovely So Real\, tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system’s impact on our musicians\, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the twentieth century. \nOpening with folk and blues artist Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter\, who was made to perform wearing prison clothes\, Asher traces the intertwined histories of music and incarceration\, from Southern prison farms of the Jim Crow era\, through the heroin-driven mid-century drug wars that villainized a generation of jazz artists\, and to our present era of mass incarceration. \nAsher shows how the suggestion of criminality has often benefited white artists\, while prosecutions often hurt Black musicians. Comparing the divergent trajectories of jazz pianist Elmo Hope with country singer Johnny Cash\, Asher examines how violent and discriminatory policing stifled Hope’s career and led to the creation of his album Sounds from Rikers Island (1963)\, while forgiveness and lenience brought us Cash’s masterpiece At San Quentin (1969). \nWith keen musical analysis and sociological insight\, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL examines key themes in culture and criminal justice\, from the movement for prison reform that allowed soul musician Ike White to stage thrilling concerts while locked up and record his album Changin’ Times (1977)\, to the crushing cultural weight of mass incarceration a generation later. Closing with Tupac Shakur’s Me Against the World (1995) and stories of music in prisons today\, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL recounts how prisons occasionally incubate talent but more often shorten careers and distort the public’s perception of musicians and their value to society. \nAn urgent book about the ways music can affirm an individual’s sense of humanity in dehumanizing circumstances\, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL writes the history of prisons into American music—a story as important as it is overlooked. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nColin Asher is the author of the critically acclaimed Never a Lovely So Real. His work has been featured in the Believer\, the Baffler\, the New Republic\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\nConversations with our Curator” is a free\, monthly web series featuring BSCAM Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Melissa Kozlowski\, in conversation with researchers and writers exploring new perspectives in American music history. Audience Q&A welcome.
URL:https://springsteencenter.org/event/conversations-with-our-curator-the-midnight-special-the-secret-prison-history-of-american-music-2026-with-colin-asher/
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