The Legacy of “Born in the USA” on its 40th Anniversary
In 1984, when Bruce Springsteen released the album “Born in the USA,” the view of the United States from Europe was that of a powerful country, mainly because the most media-driven aspects of American culture and industry were part of everyday media: Reagan-era politics, the supremacy of the Lakers and Celtics in the NBA, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Hollywood films of the time, or the birth of Apple’s Macintosh and Microsoft’s Windows, are some of the examples that everyone…