A course discussing Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir “Greetings from Bury Park”, Gurinder Chadha’s film “Blinded by the Light”, and three Bruce Springsteen songs

In a course at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, we first discussed Sarfraz Manzoor's 2007 memoir "Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock 'n' Roll" and then turned to Gurinder Chadha's 2019 film "Blinded by the Light", whose script was inspired by Manzoor's life and written by Manzoor, Chadha, and Paul Mayeda Berges. (Chadha and Berges co-wrote Chadha's 2002 film "Bend It Like Beckham".) In both "Greetings from Bury Park" and "Blinded by the Light", Manzoor presents his love of Bruce Springsteen, so for our final session, we will discuss Springsteen songs featured in the movie that the students voted on: "Born To Run", "The Promised Land", and "Blinded By The Light". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 14 May 2025)