It was July 1984, a very late weeknight. My buddy Mike and I closed up Perkins Restaurant in Butler, Pennsylvania, and left about 1 a.m. with a six-pack of Budweiser pounders for the old Kaufman’s ...

For decades, Bruce Springsteen’s songs about fast cars, working-class dreamers, and loves lost and found have helped to define a quintessentially American notion of freedom and rebellion. But do the ...

Mr. Duneier is a professor of sociology at Princeton, where he teaches a course on Bruce Springsteen’s America. “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” which arrived in movie theaters recently, is ...