Below the Circus Tent of Life

Playlist di Elisabetta Stella   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM8XT4Qk1bQ Bruce Springsteen, Wild Billy's Circus Story (The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, 1973)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pcw34mL0c Nektar, Nelly the Elephant (Down to Earth, 1974)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZ1CcNiwko Lucio Dalla, Tania del circo (Bugie, 1985)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ7bhun6H_I David Bowie feat. John Hutchinson, Life is

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Do You Believe in Miracles?

Playlist di Elisabetta Stella   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rKktwzzC8 Hot Chocolate, You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate, 1975)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnmO4cTUGc Sufjan Stevens, The Transfiguration (Seven Swans, 2004)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tebjshm7f_I Bruce Springsteen, O Mary Don't You Weep (We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, 2006)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f98YPhvbgQ Nick Cave, Christina the Astonishing (Henry's Dream, 2010)  

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Two of Us

Playlist di Elisabetta Stella   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccl37Zkjy0c Beta Radio, Brother, Sister (Seven Sisters, 2010)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0xoClNtXi0 Bruce Springsteen, Adam Raised a Cain (Darkness on the Edge of Town, 1978)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjiKRfKpPI Hozier, Take Me to Church (Take Me to Church, 2013)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLdJ5swhfEI Antonello Venditti, Piero e Cinzia (Cuore, 1984)  

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Perdere il lavoro

playlist di Elisabetta Stella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprLODBHx5k Piero Ciampi, Il Lavoro (Io e te abbiamo perso la bussola, 1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi0kWe2ixzU Bruce Springsteen, The Ghost of Tom Joad (The Ghost of Tom Joad, 1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zq5ajkXD0 The Kinks, Dead End Street (The Anthology 1964 – 1971 [Remastered version], 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7IMmsRGRpA Sufjan Stevens, Flint (for the unemployed and underpaid) (Michigan, 2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODV6mxVVRZk Johnny Mandel

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Far pace con la morte

playlist di Elisabetta Stella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3W-5nwr1aY Tom Waits,  Sea of Love (Phil Phillips cover, Orphans, 2006) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpGnzwr-JdI&feature=related Liz Lee from MTV series "My Life As Liz" (2010 - 2011), The Funeral (Band Of Horses cover, Everything All the Time, 2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPgkwYMpWY Arcade Fire, Une Année sans Lumière (Funeral, 2004) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cche-h83qNQ Nick Drake, Time Has Told Me (Five Leaves Left, 1969)

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A casa di Hilde

playlist di Elisabetta Stella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOV8jP88S10 Francesco De Gregori, La casa di Hilde (Alice non lo sa, 1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93iKhilUKHo Anton Karas, Liebchen (Der Dritte Mann [50 Jahre Kinopremiere], 2008) (altro…)

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Nothing but tired. Springsteen, Portelli e la classe operaia statunitense.

di Michele Dal Lago [Questo articolo è uscito su «Lo Straniero», n. 186/187 - dicembre 2015/gennaio 2016, pp. 148-152]. Nel panorama editoriale italiano Badlands (Alessandro Portelli, Donzelli, 2015) è certamente il libro più importante per comprendere la poetica springsteeniana in rapporto alla storia sociale della classe lavoratrice statunitense. «Tratto tutto –

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Diluvio in tre atti

Una playlist di Sergio La Chiusa   [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7htoJAK7g[/embed] Peter Gabriel, Here comes the flood (PG, 1977)   [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTF4ojbGj1c[/embed] Bruce Springsteen, Lost in the flood (live@Hammersmith Odeon London 1975) (altro…)

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