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Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Ann K. Powers (born February 4, 1964)<ref name=Twitter-Birthday-2018>Template:Cite tweet[self-published]</ref> is an American writer and popular music critic.<ref name=NationalWritingProject-WhyIWrite-2011>Template:Cite news</ref> She is a music critic for NPR and a contributor at the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously chief pop critic. She has also written for other publications, such as The New York Times, Blender and The Village Voice. Powers is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, a memoir; Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, on eroticism in American pop music; and Piece by Piece, co-authored with Tori Amos.

Early life and educationEdit

Powers was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. During elementary school, her first poem was published in the Our Lady of Fatima school newspaper.<ref name=NationalWritingProject-WhyIWrite-2011 />

Powers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and a Master of Arts degree in American literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Powers studied literary theory. She also wrote about music, feminism, film, and religion.<ref name=NationalWritingProject-WhyIWrite-2011 />

CareerEdit

Powers' professional writing career began in 1980<ref name=Billboard-thehypemachine>Template:Cite magazine</ref> while she was still in high school, when she started writing for the Seattle music weekly magazine The Rocket.<ref name=pnwmagazine-coolwithit>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After college, in 1986, Powers started writing about popular music and pop culture as a columnist at the San Francisco Weekly.<ref name=Billboard-thehypemachine /> After moving to New York City, she wrote for The New York Times from 1992 to 1993, then was an editor at The Village Voice from 1993 to 1996. From 1997 to 2001, Powers was the pop critic at The New York Times.<ref name=Frontline-Interview-2001>Template:Cite news</ref>

From 2001 until May 2005, Powers was senior curator at the Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle, which later became Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). Powers and her husband Eric Weisbard have helped organize the annual EMP Pop Conference (now MoPOP Conference) since its inception in 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

After a brief tenure as Blender magazine's senior critic, in March 2006, she accepted a position as chief pop critic at the Los Angeles Times, where she succeeded Robert Hilburn.<ref name=SeattlePI-DaCapoBestMusic-2011>Template:Cite news</ref> Powers wrote regularly for Pop & Hiss, the Los Angeles Times' music blog, in addition to other features and news articles. She remained in this position until March 2011, when she departed for NPR, though she continued as a contributor for the Los Angeles Times afterward.<ref name=LAObserved-LATimes-Exit-2011>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Variety-LATimes-Exit-2011>Template:Cite news</ref> Since 2011, Powers has been NPR Music's critic and correspondent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Powers has written for The Record, NPR's blog about finding, making, buying, sharing, and talking about music, since April 2011. In 2017, Powers spearheaded a multi-platform project at NPR called Turning the Tables.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The project sought to reconstitute the canon of American popular music by publishing a list of the 150 greatest albums by women and a related series of essays, audio features, and events.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=NPR-TurningTheTables-2017>Template:Cite news</ref> Powers is also the Nashville correspondent for World Cafe, regularly recording sessions with local and regional Southern musicians.<ref name=WorldCafe-NashvilleSessions>Template:Cite news</ref>

Powers' work often critiques the perceptions of sex, racial, and social minorities in the music industry. She has written about topics such as religion, feminism, and film.<ref name=NationalWritingProject-WhyIWrite-2011 /><ref name=RnRHoF-Blog-2010>Template:Cite news</ref>

BooksEdit

Powers co-edited the 1995 anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap, and was the guest editor of the Da Capo Press Best Music Writing 2010.<ref name=RockSheWrote-1995>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=BestMusicWriting-2010>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 2000, Powers published the memoir Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America.<ref name=Kirkus-WeirdLikeUs>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=PublishersWeekly-WeirdLikeUs-Review-2000>Template:Cite news</ref> The book focuses on Powers' time living in Seattle, San Francisco, and Brooklyn.<ref name=EW-WeirdLikeUs-Review-2000>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Joshua Klein of the A.V. Club described the project as "us[ing Powers'] personal experiences to define how youth culture (what she calls bohemianism) has changed over the years (though she lingers mostly on the '80s)."<ref name=AVClub-WeirdLikeUs-2002>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2005, Powers co-wrote the book Piece by Piece with musician Tori Amos.<ref name=PieceByPiece-ToriAmos-2005>Template:Cite book</ref> The book discusses the role of women in the modern music industry and features information about composing, touring, performance, and the realities of the music business.<ref name=PopMatters-PieceByPiece-Review-2005>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=PublishersWeekly-PieceByPiece-Review-2005>Template:Cite news</ref>

Powers wrote a proposal for a book on Kate Bush's album The Dreaming that was slated to be published in 2007 as part of the 33⅓ series; however, the project was abandoned when Powers started her job at the Los Angeles Times, and the book was never written.<ref name=3313-KateBush-Dreaming-2006>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=KateBush-Dreaming-2010>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=Twitter-TheDreamingNeverPublished-2018>Template:Cite tweet[self-published]</ref>

In August 2017, Powers published the book Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music.<ref name=GoodBooty-2017>Template:Cite book</ref> The book reconsiders the history of American popular music through the lens of sexuality and eroticism. It was positively reviewed and was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, No Depression, and BuzzFeed.<ref name=WSJ-BestFiction-2017>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=WSJ-GoodBooty-Review-2017>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=NPR-GreatReads-2017>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=NoDep-BestBooks-2017>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=BuzzFeed-BookGuide-2017>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2024 she published a biography of singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, titled, Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Other worksEdit

Powers has appeared in various TV shows and documentaries. She was in the film The Punk Singer as an interviewee discussing the influence of Kathleen Hanna on punk music.<ref name=ThePunkSinger-2013>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also appeared in the documentaries The Gits and Undeniably Donnie<ref name=BitterSoutherner-UndeniablyDonnie-2015>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in addition the Behind the Music Remastered episode on Heart.

Personal lifeEdit

Powers is married to Eric Weisbard, a music critic and professor of American studies at the University of Alabama.<ref name=LAObserved-LATimes-Exit-2011 /> They were married in 1998.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2009,<ref name=LAObserved-LATimes-Exit-2011 /><ref name=CrimsonWhite-Tuscaloosa-2014>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=TuscaloosaNews-QA-2014>Template:Cite news</ref> later moving to East Nashville, Tennessee, in 2015.<ref name=EastNashvillian-Nashville>Template:Cite news</ref> They have a daughter.<ref name=Parenting-OpenAdoption-2010>Template:Cite news</ref>

Honors and awardsEdit

  • 2008: Artist in Residence, The Popular Music Project at USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center<ref name=NormanLearCenter-PopularMusicProject>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Works and publicationsEdit

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