Liza Zitelli Grabowski

Excerpt from PopMatters review:

"One of the best is by Jefferson Cowie and Lauren Boehm, who use the song “Born in the U.S.A.” in all of its versions to discuss Springsteen’s focus on the working class. Equally impressive, Liza Zitelli takes readers on a song-by-song journey through the album, Devils and Dust, focusing on Springsteen’s depiction of motherhood, and even arguing at one point that his religious imagery, combined with the album’s focus on motherhood, provides a corrective to the Western tradition of religious patriarchy by restoring the “Earth Goddess”.  Another strong essay by Steven Fein uses Springsteen’s songs “American Skin (41 Shots)” and “Galveston Bay” to examine cultural prejudice versus individual bigotry."

--PopMatters