'Bruceland' , the 'Promised Land' and the 'Land of Hope and Dreams': Constructing Music Tourism: Bruce Springsteen Fans and the Meaning of Visiting Asbury Park and the Jersey Shore
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2018-08-31
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Recently, the niche of music tourism has become increasingly significant and widespread.
Even though research into music tourism has also started to develop more broadly, the
perspective of fans travelling someplace out of fandom of a musician, band, or music scene
remains rather neglected. This research will focus on the case study of fans of Bruce
Springsteen and his ‘adopted’ hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, as well as its
neighboring towns of Belmar, Freehold, and Long Branch. In this thesis, this area is referred
to as Asbury Park and the Jersey shore. This research will focus on an interpretation of
recurring themes in the ways in which fans of Bruce Springsteen describe their motivations
for visiting this area, as well as their experiences. As such, this research aims to add to an
understanding of the ways in which (fan) tourists add to a construction of a music tourism
destination; in other words, how do fans of Bruce Springsteen shape an image of said
destination in their discourses? What makes their visit meaningful? How do they contribute to
a particular tourist landscape?
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