Describe Cowie's interpretation of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.' How did 'blue-collar silence' work?

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1. Describe Cowie's interpretation of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.' How did 'blue-collar silence' work?

in 1976 in Nebraska
Weather Underground Organization) - Took over Dean's office but were still not getting enough attention - Group of white people, not supported by their community - Responsible for at least 25 bombings in the seventies - Death of Fred Hampton and Mark Clay was the turning point (1969) | Judge ordered to know about espionage techniques. Case dropped - Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohm go free
Had to do with asserting self - Civil Rights Movement vs 'My Rights'
He says it's about a worker who was 'born in a dead man's town' who burns in the despair of - deindustrialized, post-Vietnam America. The way blue collar silence worked was that 'pain is - internalized 'til you spend half of your life just covering it up''. This spoke of the collective unconscious about the working-class after the 1970s.

Describe Cowie's interpretation of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.' How did 'blue-collar silence' work?

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