Tori Amos's Boys for Pele

Amy Gentry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2131-3 (ISBN)

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It’s hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos’s performance, both positive and negative, are organized around disgust—the disgust that women are taught to feel, not only for their own bodies, but for their taste in music. Released in 1996, Amos’s third album, Boys for Pele, represents the height of Amos’s willingness to explore the ugly qualities that make all of her music, even her more conventionally beautiful albums, so uncomfortably, and so wonderfully, strange. Using a blend of memoir, criticism, and aesthetic theory, Gentry argues that the aesthetics of disgust are useful for thinking in a broader way about women’s experience of all art forms.

Amy Gentry is the author of the thriller Good as Gone, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.” She is also a book reviewer and essayist whose work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Austin Chronicle. Amy has a doctorate in English and lives in Austin, Texas.

Track Listing
Introduction: On Being Grossed Out
1. Y Kant Tori Rage?
2. Y Kant Tori Kant?
3. Y Kant Tori Sit Still?
4. Y Kant Tori Rock?
5. Y Kant Tori Cop to It?
6. Y Kant Grow Up?
7. Y Kant Tori Stop Looking at Herself?
8. Y Kant Tori Be Intersectional?
Conclusion: Twinkle and Spark

Acknowledgments
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	121 x 165 mm
Gewicht	182 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-2131-5 / 1501321315
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-2131-3 / 9781501321313
Zustand	Neuware