Very few popular music artists are the subject of exclusively dedicated peer-reviewed journals. There is, however, at least one – who features in the Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (BOSS)
It aims to publish scholarly, open-access, peer-reviewed essays pertaining to Bruce Springsteen. And seeks to encourage consideration of Springsteen’s body of work primarily through the political, economic, and socio-cultural factors that have influenced his music and shaped its reception.
Here is a partial list of recently published articles :
• Bruce Springsteen as Post-Christian Pastor
• The Theological Virtues According to Bruce Springsteen
• Springsteen as Developmental Therapist: An Autoethnography
Scholarly considerations within the corpus of Springsteen Studies are not, of course, restricted to BOSS – Here are some other examples :
• “And you don’t like, don’t like the way I talk”: Authenticity in the language of bruce springsteen. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication.
• Bruce Springsteen fan behavior and identification Psychology of Music, Volume: 49 issue: 4, page(s): 691-703
• De Born to Run à Born in the USA, une approche géographique de la nostalgie dans les chansons de Bruce Springsteen Annales de géographie 2020/5 (N° 735), pages 5 à 32 (English version here)
• “This American Skin”: Bruce Springsteen and the complexity of American identity Clark, Simon (2017) PhD thesis, Murdoch University., Austalia.
• No Surrender: Bruce Springsteen, Neoliberalism and Rock and Roll’s Melancholic Fantasy of Sovereign Rebellion Graves, Kaitlin N. Florida Atlantic University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017.
Research research by Martin Gardiner