Bruce Springsteen Talks About His Place in American Music (opens in new tab)

When Bruce Springsteen started playing rock ’n’ roll in bars along the Jersey Shore, he could not have imagined that there would one day be a building with his name out front. But in the last few days he led the opening festivities for the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, a 30,000-square-foot cultural hub on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey. As part of the celebrations, Springsteen and a host of music luminaries put on two nights of shows on the Monmout...