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Born in the U.S.A

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Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (Official Video)

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 How do your own cultural biases and perspectives allow you to understand certain aspects, but not others?

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 How do your own cultural biases and perspectives allow you to understand certain aspects, but not others?

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I tend to keep an open mind when it comes to cultural issues in general. Doesn't matter your race or cultural background they are issues at hand for everyone. I try to listen and understand where everyone is coming from because at the end of day everyone wants to be treated fairly.

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How do you feel when you listen to this song? Like an outsider? Like an insider? An empathizer and/or sympathizer.

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How do you feel when you listen to this song? Like an outsider? Like an insider? An empathizer and/or sympathizer.

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I feel some kind of way about this song only because everything that was stated are facts. I empathize because this issue hasn't been resolved and it's now 2018. This song is still relevant in this day and time.

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How does this song intersect with civic, public life and the affairs of regional, national, and/or global communities? 

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How does this song intersect with civic, public life and the affairs of regional, national, and/or global communities? 

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This songs intersects with communities being beat in public by the police officers, Sons and daughters being sent off to war, overpopulation of jails and veterans that are now homeless on the streets. This song is about our national affairs but also global affairs as well.

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What does it mean to its intended audience?

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What does it mean to its intended audience?

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The song means to the intended audience that we can understand what they are going through.

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Why does it “matter” to those communities?

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Why does it “matter” to those communities?

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It matters to those communities because to see this happening to our country that's all about the american dream and gives foreigners hope when they don't even care about the citizens in their own country.

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This song means to the performer is taking a stand and voicing their stance. Not only for themselves but speaking for the voiceless. Many artist tend not to use their platform due to the effect has on their musical careers.

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How Ronald Reagan Changed Bruce Springsteen Politics Article

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How Ronald Reagan Changed Bruce Springsteen Politics Article

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Born in the U.S.A., which turns 30 this week, is Bruce Springsteen’s best-selling album to date, and that should come as no surprise. Its songs—“I’m On Fire,” “Glory Days,” “Darlington County” and others—are FM radio staples, their foursquare drum, piano, base and guitar parts perfectly at home in either a Jersey Shore bar or an East Texas roadhouse. If you hear a Springsteen song at your local supermarket, nine times out of 10 it comes from this album.

Born in the U.S.A. is also the Springsteen album whose songs have had the longest half-life in U.S. political discourse, from President Ronald Reagan’s attempt to co-opt Springsteen’s popularity right after the album’s release to John Kerry’s ploddingly literal use of “No Surrender” in his presidential campaign 20 years later. Even Barack Obama, probably the most broadly appreciative music fan ever to occupy the Oval Office, chose a Born in the U.S.A. track (“I’m On Fire”) for a 2008 playlist of favorite songs.

But the greatest political impact of Born in the U.S.A. was undeniably on Springsteen himself—turning him from a relatively apolitical performer from an avowedly working-class background to a passionate advocate for the rights of the disenfranchised—and that was all thanks to Reagan.

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In 1984, President Reagan was running for his second term. Early on, his team had decided that the president’s core supporters would vote for him no matter what. The reelection campaign would therefore be more about wooing moderate and independent voters than about shoring up the committed Republican base. It would be about images rather than issues and would attempt to co-opt as much of mainstream U.S. culture as it could. If rock ‘n’ roll had been anathema to an earlier Republicans like former vice president Spiro Agnew—or even to then-current, musically clueless Secretary of the Interior James Watt—it was perfectly fine with most of the Reagan re-election team, particularly if the music in question could be viewed as inspirational. “If we allow any Democrat to claim optimism or idealism as his issue,” one adviser noted very early in the campaign’s planning, “we will lose the election.”

In late August, just after the Republican National Convention, conservative columnist—and unofficial Reagan campaign adviser—George Will attended a Springsteen concert in Largo, Maryland, and was highly impressed. “If all Americans,” Will would later write in his column about his backstage experience, “in labor and management, who make steel or cars or shoes or textiles—made their products with as much energy and confidence as Springsteen and his merry band make music, there would be no need for Congress to be thinking about protectionism.”

Perhaps significantly, Will’s fervent ode to the Springsteen work ethic did not appear until two weeks after the concert, when the presidential campaign was in full swing. Six days after the column appeared, President Reagan made a campaign appearance in Hammonton, New Jersey, and as usual his staff slipped a few local references into his standard stump speech. “America’s future,” Reagan told the small-town audience, “rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire—New Jersey’s own, Bruce Springsteen.”

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How can you understand the cultural perspectives from which this song was written?

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How can you understand the cultural perspectives from which this song was written?

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I can understand the cultural perspective from which this song was written because even though Regan isn't in office, the effects of this reganomics still has a effect. Especially in the Miltary.

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Why and how is this musical genre is “outside” of your own immediate cultural milieu?

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Why and how is this musical genre is “outside” of your own immediate cultural milieu?

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This musical genre is outside of my immediate cultural milieu being that it was 80's while Regan was in office. This song relates to the treatment and effects reganomics had on the economy.

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Glenn Beck Denounces "Born In The USA" as Anti-American -ARTICLE

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Glenn Beck Denounces "Born In The USA" as Anti-American -ARTICLE

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Twenty-six years after the release of Bruce Springsteen's hit song, "Born in The USA," conservative talk show host/performance artist Glenn Beck finally got around to listening to the lyrics.

Beck was shocked, shocked to discover that for all these years he'd been rocking out to a song about a bitter down-and-out Vietnam vet who has been kicked to the curb by the aforementioned USA.

Is Beck aware that conservative demigod Ronald Reagan used "Born in the USA" as a theme song for his reelection campaign? The cognitive dissonance is going to smart. Beck loves Reagan. "Because of Ronald Reagan, my grandfather, my father, I have hope for America," Beck told an audience at the conservative CPAC conference earlier this year.

Yesiree, The Gipper loved The Boss. Reagan thought Springsteen was a shining example of hope. According to Roadside America:

On the afternoon on September 19, 1984, President Ronald Reagan spoke before an enthusiastic crowd in downtown Hammonton, New Jersey. The speech was mostly political boilerplate, but it did contain one memorable passage. "America's future," Reagan said, "rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire, New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen."

People even vaguely familiar with the songs of Bruce Springsteen know that they rarely contain messages of hope for America's future. But Reagan was oblivious.

Beck correctly senses that Springsteen didn't reciprocate Reagan's admiration. The campaign didn't get Springsteen's permission to use "Born in the USA" as a theme song. When the artist found out, he put a stop to it.

In the same video clip, Beck urges his viewers to wake up and realize that Woody Guthrie's beloved anthem "This Land is Your Land" is unpatriotic, despite the fact that we all sang it at summer camp, and the lyrics make perfect sense (even to Beck). I am not making this up.