%0 Journal Article
%T My City of Ruins: Bruce Springsteen e l¡¯utopia fra le rovine
%A Enrico Botta
%J Altre Modernitš€
%D 2011
%I Universitš€ degli Studi di Milano
%X The paper focuses on My City of Ruins, the song that Bruce Springsteen sang¡ªten days after the 09/11 terrorist attacks¡ªfor "America: A Tribute to Heroes" and that was released in the concept album The Rising in 2002. The essay aims to highlight how the song describes the post 09/11 New York City by opposing the themes of ¡°ruins¡± and ¡°utopia.¡± From a textual and musical point of view, My City of Ruins is, in fact, composed of a double structure that balances different feelings: the fear, pain, and loneliness of the victims, in the rock-blues first section; the faith, love, and hope, in the gospel second part. Furthermore, the paper tries to point out how My City of Ruins no longer describes the symbolic ruins of a foreign past¡ªin line with the nineteenth and twentieth-century American cultural tradition of the Grand Tour¡ªbut defines the physical signs of a definitively collapsed ¡°American dream,¡± which can survive only in a utopian and spiritual ¡°Promised Land.¡±
%K Bruce Springsteen
%K My City of Ruins
%K The Rising
%U http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1305