Sex Roles and Gender Identity in the Music of Bruce Springsteen

<Tab/>Popular musicians often turn out to have a great deal of insight into complex social issues that one might not expect given the way that a lot of them carry themselves. The white establishment constantly rails against rap music, while young African-Americans claim that a lot of it speaks directly to their hopes, fears and concerns. Woody Guthrie, the composer of "This Land is Your Land," could at points in his life have been identified as a socialist. Scrawling "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar and duct-taping his own mouth shut to stand that way on a New Y…