Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

By Ann Powers

"In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate di...

Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America

By Ann Powers

Best music writing 2010

By Ann Powers, Daphne Carr

Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of m...

Weird like us

By Ann Powers

"Ann Powers, pop critic for The New York Times and one of today's most notable authorities on alternative culture, claims in this personal chronicle that bohemia is alive and well in America - nurt...

Tori Amos piece by piece

By Ann Powers, Tori Amos

A journey through the creative process by one of contemporary music's leading artists provides details of the life and career of Tori Amos and explains how her songs evolve from simple ideas and me...

Tori Amos

By Ann Powers, Tori Amos

Tori Amos

By Ann Powers, Tori Amos

Introduction to Environmental Law

By Karl S. Coplan, Ann Powers, Jeffrey G. Miller, Nancy Long Elder

Explores water pollution and the federal statute chiefly designed to control it, the Clean Water Act, and examines how water pollution is addressed, first by the common law and then by statute. Thi...

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

By Ann Powers

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

By Ann Powers