{"id":22747,"date":"2026-07-13T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=22747"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:48:02","slug":"bruce-springsteen-at-monmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/bruce-springsteen-at-monmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen at Monmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even before visitors reach the galleries, they are met with a reminder of why the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music is on Monmouth\u2019s campus. A lobby display highlights Springsteen\u2019s long connection to the University, where he performed regularly between 1969 and 1974 for students who became his earliest fan base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit traces those early campus shows, from his days with the bands Child and Steel Mill to his 1974 performance with the E Street Band to his more recent appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Springsteen rehearsed his critically acclaimed one-man show, \u201cSpringsteen on Broadway,\u201d in Pollak Theatre, and he still performs at the annual American Music Honors awards show on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Positioned at the entrance, the exhibit serves as both a welcome and a starting point, connecting Springsteen to the broader story of American music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also reinforces why his name is on the building<\/a>. Springsteen, says Santelli, is in many ways the perfect representative artist of American music today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exploring the artist\u2019s decades-long connection to Monmouth University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":22748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Uncategorized","issue":"Spring\/Summer 2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23437,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions\/23437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}