Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. Captured Two Sides of Reagan’s America

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The contradiction-dense heartland rock of Bruce Springsteen captured the spirit of a declining working class in Reagan-era America.

Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. Captured Two Sides of Reagan’s America

Two years after his 1982 album Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. The first was a bleak tribute to a working class in decline, the second a set of feel-good ballads. Together, they provided a tragic-romantic view of Reagan-era America.

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