Wednesday Jun 03, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Book.
Springsteen Fandom: “A Lifetime Conversation” explores the experience of the Bruce Springsteen musical fandom as a mutual exchange between artist and audience.
Choosing significant stops of the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour as a narrative guideline, the book presents a thorough analysis of Springsteen’s album conceptions, song lyrics, show rituals, and interviews. Based on a discussion of the ever-growing Springsteen scholarship, Pethes introduces artist-fan-communication as a notion that is not based on mere illusions but rather on actual emotions and practices.
For over 50 years, Bruce Springsteen has been a rock star with whom fans entertain a highly personal relationship. This is not only due to Springsteen’s charismatic stage persona but also to the aesthetic conception of his music that the book explores based on Springsteen’s own description of the relationship to his fans as a “lifetime conversation.”
About the Author.
Nicolas Pethes is a professor of literature at the University of Cologne (Germany) and a lifelong fan of Bruce Springsteen. After publishing six academic books and co-editing Germany’s leading magazine on popular culture, POP. Kultur und Kritik, he decided to focus on what lay closest to his heart, exploring why fans identify with certain artists and the nature of the unique exchange between Springsteen and his audience. Nico has followed every Springsteen tour since 1993, attending concerts across Europe and the United States ,and over the years has performed many of his favorite songs with his own band, Folkadelic!