{"id":2256617,"date":"2026-01-29T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2256617"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:40:37","slug":"bruce-springsteen-slams-trump-and-ice-on-streets-of-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-springsteen-slams-trump-and-ice-on-streets-of-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen slams Trump and ICE on Streets of Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But there is no room for misinterpretation in Streets of Minneapolis<\/em>, the danger being that such historic specificity might leave the song quickly dated, whilst alienating a huge Trump-supporting section of his audience.<\/p>\n

Yet Streets of Minneapolis<\/em> plugs into a venerable tradition of protest, akin to Percy Bysshe Shelley\u2019s broadside poem The Masque of Anarchy<\/em>, written in immediate outraged response to the Peterloo massacre in Manchester on August 16, 1819. Such raw protest classics as Nina Simone<\/a>\u2019s Mississippi Goddam<\/em> and Bob Dylan\u2019s The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll <\/em>(both released in 1964) were written and recorded quickly in response to specific Civil Rights era incidents.<\/p>\n

Springsteen\u2019s Streets of Minneapolis <\/em>echoes Neil Young<\/a>\u2019s angry, despairing Ohio<\/em>, written in the aftermath of the Kent State university shootings on May 4, 1970. Ohio<\/em> is often celebrated as one of the most quick-fire protest songs of all time, recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on May 21 then rush-released to stores, yet it was not actually available until mid-June.<\/p>\n

The Boss meanwhile has taken advantage of modern recording and online distribution to get his song hot off the presses with unprecedented speed. In a way, I am surprised more artists haven\u2019t been doing this, although he is not a lone voice of protest. The British folk stalwart Billy Bragg<\/a> also rush-released a Minneapolis protest song this week, called City of Heroes<\/em>. Yet there is a world of a difference between a British protest singer bashing an acoustic guitar to give a history lesson comparing Trumpian America with Nazi Germany and a beloved rock superstar and American icon of the magnitude of Springsteen singing out against his own government.<\/p>\n

Will Springsteen\u2019s act of resistance embolden others? Can songs even make a difference in the real world any more? These are big questions, but if Springsteen\u2019s protest stirs more musical artists to engage with real world issues, that surely can\u2019t be a bad thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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