From Rousseau to Springsteen: Romanticism Themes
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Born To Run Lyrics
Born To Run Live,
Hammersmith 1975
Neo Classical Humanism: Romanticism
-- Common Man: idealize working or peasant class
-- Individual as center of his own universe
-- Individual Freedom vs. Toxic Urban Landscape
(escape)
-- Individual Goodness vs. Corruptive Society
-- Criminals formed by corruptive social forces
-- Sexuality to be celebrated, not reformed
-- Folk forms (roots music, blues, country etc),
pastoral, common language of the common man