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If you've followed my Archive Series reviews for a while, I imagine that you don't need any more convincing about why the Darkness Tour is the essential Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band live experience. I’m curious to what extent others have thought about this question, and can back up, or push back, against my supposition.įollow New Urbs on Twitter for a feed dedicated to TAC’ s coverage of cities, urbanism, and place.Tagged 1978, 78, Adam Raised a Cain, agora, apollo theatre, Archive Series, Atlanta, atlanta 78, Backstreets, Badlands, Because the Night, Born to Run, bruce springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, bruce springsteen archive, bruce springsteen archive release, Bruce Springsteen Archive Series, Bruce Springsteen live, Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads, bruce springsteen live series, Bruce Springsteen new album, Candy's Room, Christmas, Clarence Clemons, Colombia records, come a little bit closer, Danny Federici, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Darkness Tour, detroit medley, electric ballroom, Fire, fox theatre, Garry Tallent, Gloria, Good Rocking Tonight, hoboken, Houston, Independence Day, james brown, jay & the americans, John Lennon, Jungleland, Letter To You, Little Steven, live at the apollo, Live Downloads, Max Weinberg, Meadowlands, miami steve, New from the Springsteen archive, new springsteen album, night train, Not Fade Away, October 23rd, passaic, patti scialfa, Patti Smith, Prove It All Night, Racing in the Street, Raise Your Hand, robert mitchum, Rosalita Come Out Tonight, Roy Bittan, Roy Orbison, Sad Eyes, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, September 30th 1978, she's the one, Spirit in the Night, springsteen and the e street band, springsteen fox theatre 1978, Springsteen Live Series, steve, Steve Van Zandt, Stevie Van Zandt, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, The Promised Land, The River, Thunder Road, Winterland 6 Comments That isn’t a knock at Limbaugh the man, RIP. Is a large country like ours doomed, by some law of psychogeography, to produce Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin?” But that culture itself is, to some extent, an outgrowth of our vast size and pioneer spirit, which are irreducible and intertwined American characteristics. “Consider that talk radio, with all of the ugly and polarized politics it has helped to spawn, is in many ways an epiphenomenon of American driving culture.
I wrote in this space, almost exactly two years ago, the following:
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Surely the polarization around urban issues-for example, the SUV as a culture war symbol, and the idea that car dependency and free highways were the results of free enterprise rather than policy and government spending-has something to do with the interplay of politics and the car. I’ve always suspected that the geographic polarization of the country had something to do with this, that there was a sort of feedback loop between living in a more remote or less-regarded part of the country, spending lots of time alone, and listening to radio programs which often reinforced both a sense of grievance and a sense of self-reliance.
Lots of folks who drive for a living-truckers, for example-tend to lean right, in the Reagan Democrat sense. Many of us spend hours alone in a car each day, with nothing but the radio. I’ve wondered, on and off over the years, to what extent the massive phenomenon of political talk radio is related to America’s driving culture and general dependence on automobiles.
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