Editing Ann Powers

{{short description|American writer and music critic}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ann Powers
| image = Ann Powers 01A.jpg
| alt = Ann Powers in 2007
| caption = Powers in 2007
| birth_name = Ann K. Powers
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|02|04}}
| birth_place = [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]], U.S.
| occupation = Journalist
| alma_mater = {{plainlist|
* [[San Francisco State University]]
* [[University of California, Berkeley]]}}
| years_active = 1980s–present
| spouse = {{marriage |[[Eric Weisbard]] |1998}}
| children = 1
}}
'''Ann K. Powers''' (born February 4, 1964)<ref name=Twitter-Birthday-2018>{{cite tweet|last=Powers|first=Ann|user=annkpowers|title=I was born right before the Beatles invaded. 02/04/1964. Old and proud|date=6 January 2018|number=949784890727436294|access-date=6 January 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180106234012/https://twitter.com/annkpowers/status/949784890727436294|archive-date=6 January 2018|url-status=live}}[[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> is an American writer and popular music critic.<ref name=NationalWritingProject-WhyIWrite-2011>{{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Why I Write: Ann Powers Reflects on Writing About Rock|url=https://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3696|work=[[National Writing Project]]|date=19 October 2011|language=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140604003543/http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3696|archive-date=4 June 2014|url-status=live}}</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 (magazine)|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 (book)|''Piece by Piece'']], co-authored with [[Tori Amos]].

==Early life and education==
Powers was born and raised in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|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 />

==Career==
Powers' professional writing career began in 1980<ref name=Billboard-thehypemachine>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbr6WdsnLzQC&pg=RA10-PA18 |title=The Hype Machine |last=Flanary |first=Patrick |magazine=Billboard|page=18 |date=17 September 2011 |access-date=10 January 2018}}</ref> while she was still in high school, when she started writing for the Seattle music weekly magazine ''[[The Rocket (music magazine)|The Rocket]]''.<ref name=pnwmagazine-coolwithit>{{cite magazine |url=http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2002/0428/cover.html |title=Cool with it |last=Eskenazi |first=Stuart |magazine=Pacific Northwest |publisher=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=28 April 2002 |access-date=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/nprs-ann-powers-talks-new-book-music-and-her-seattle-roots/ |title=NPR's Ann Powers talks new book, music, and her Seattle roots |last=Cross |first=Charles R. |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=30 August 2017 |access-date=10 January 2018}}</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>{{cite news|title=Interview: Ann Powers|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/interviews/powers.html|work=[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline]]|publisher=[[PBS]]|date=27 February 2001}}</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>{{cite web |url=https://www.thestranger.com/music/feature/2015/04/15/22047264/a-lot-of-smart-people-will-be-at-the-emp-pop-conference-this-weekend-will-you-be-one |title=A lot of smart people will be at the EMP Pop conference this weekend. Will you be one? |work=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] |date=15 April 2015 |access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=MoPOP's Pop Conference to explore music and politics |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/mopops-pop-conference-to-explore-music-and-politics/ |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |last=Cross |first=Charles R. |date=14 April 2017 |access-date= 25 January 2018}}</ref>

After a brief tenure as ''[[Blender (magazine)|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>{{cite news|last1=Perry|first1=Clayton|title=Interview: Ann Powers - Chief Pop Music Critic, Los Angeles Times|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Interview-Ann-Powers-Chief-Pop-Music-Critic-870284.php|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]|date=26 April 2011}}</ref> Powers wrote regularly for Pop & Hiss, the ''Los Angeles Times''<nowiki/>' 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>{{cite news|last1=Roderick|first1=Kevin|title=Critic Ann Powers leaves L.A. Times for NPR|url=http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/02/critic_ann_powers_leaves.php|work=LA Observed|date=18 February 2011|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Variety-LATimes-Exit-2011>{{cite news|last1=Barker|first1=Andrew|title=Ann Powers ankles LA Times|url=https://variety.com/2011/music/news/ann-powers-ankles-la-times-30027/|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=19 February 2011}}</ref> Since 2011, Powers has been [[NPR Music]]'s critic and correspondent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ann Powers - Critic and Correspondent, NPR Music |url=https://www.npr.org/people/140955737/ann-powers |website=NPR}}</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>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2017/07/25/539063805/turning-the-tables-behind-the-list |title='Turning the Tables': Behind the List |last=Schlanger |first=Talia |work=[[NPR]] |format=Radio broadcast |date=25 July 2017 |access-date=10 January 2018}}</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>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538601651/a-new-canon-in-pop-music-women-belong-at-the-center-of-the-story |title=A new canon: In pop music, women belong at the center of the story |last=Powers |first=Ann |work=[[NPR]] |date= 24 July 2017 |access-date=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=NPR-TurningTheTables-2017>{{cite news|title=The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women|work=[[NPR]]|date=24 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> Powers is also the Nashville correspondent for [[World Cafe (radio program)|World Cafe]], regularly recording sessions with local and regional Southern musicians.<ref name=WorldCafe-NashvilleSessions>{{cite news|title=Nashville Sessions|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/480972413/nashville-sessions|work=[[World Cafe (radio program)|World Cafe]], [[WXPN]]|publisher=[[NPR]]|language=en}}</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>{{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Pop music critic Ann Powers searches for the language of rock and roll|url=http://rockhall.com/blog/post/6485_guest-blog-ann-powers/|work=[[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]|date=19 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012213248/http://rockhall.com/blog/post/6485_guest-blog-ann-powers/|archive-date=12 October 2014|language=en}}</ref>

===Books===
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>{{cite book|editor1-last=McDonnell|editor1-first=Evelyn|editor2-last=Powers|editor2-first=Ann|title=Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap|date=1995|publisher=Plexus|location=London|isbn=978-0-859-65233-9|oclc=35130945}}</ref><ref name=BestMusicWriting-2010>{{cite book|editor1-last=Powers|editor1-first=Ann|title=Best Music Writing 2010|url=https://archive.org/details/bestmusicwriting00carr|url-access=registration|date=2010|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-306-81925-4|oclc=548569629}}</ref>

In 2000, Powers published the memoir ''Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America.''<ref name=Kirkus-WeirdLikeUs>{{cite news|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ann-powers/weird-like-us/|title=Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America by Ann Powers|date=15 December 1999|work=[[Kirkus Reviews]]}}</ref><ref name=PublishersWeekly-WeirdLikeUs-Review-2000>{{cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-83808-3|title=Weird Like Us: A Bohemian America by Ann Powers|date=31 January 2000|work=[[Publishers Weekly]]|language=en}}</ref> The book focuses on Powers' time living in Seattle, San Francisco, and Brooklyn.<ref name=EW-WeirdLikeUs-Review-2000>{{cite magazine|last1=Hodgman|first1=George|url=http://ew.com/article/2000/03/10/weird-us/|title=Weird Like Us|date=10 March 2000|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|language=en}}</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>{{cite news|last1=Klein|first1=Joshua|url=https://www.avclub.com/ann-powers-weird-like-us-my-bohemian-america-1798193056|title=Ann Powers: Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=29 March 2002|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2005, Powers co-wrote the book ''[[Piece by Piece (book)|Piece by Piece]]'' with musician [[Tori Amos]].<ref name=PieceByPiece-ToriAmos-2005>{{cite book|last1=Amos|first1=Tori|last2=Powers|first2=Ann|title=Tori Amos: Piece by Piece. A Portrait of the Artist: Her Thoughts, Her Conversations|url=https://archive.org/details/toriamospiecebyp00amos|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=Broadway Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-307-49204-3|oclc=320322936}}</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>{{cite news|last1=Joseph|first1=Leslie|title=Tori Amos: Piece by Piece by Tori Amos & Ann Powers|url=https://www.popmatters.com/tori-amos-piece-by-piece-2496241275.html|work=[[PopMatters]]|date=1 February 2005|language=en}}</ref><ref name=PublishersWeekly-PieceByPiece-Review-2005>{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7679-1676-9|work=[[Publishers Weekly]]|date=31 January 2005|language=en}}</ref>

Powers wrote a proposal for a book on [[Kate Bush]]'s album ''[[The Dreaming (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>{{cite web|author=333sound|title=33 x 33 1/3|url=https://333sound.com/33-x-33-13/|website=[[33⅓]]|date=11 March 2006|access-date=7 January 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180108031447/https://333sound.com/33-x-33-13/|archive-date=8 January 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=KateBush-Dreaming-2010>{{cite book|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Kate Bush's the Dreaming (33 1/3|date=2010|publisher=Continuum Intl Pub Group|isbn=978-0-826-42882-0|oclc=567246288|title-link=33⅓}}</ref><ref name=Twitter-TheDreamingNeverPublished-2018>{{cite tweet|last=Powers|first=Ann|user=annkpowers|title=Hey everyone I never wrote that book. A proposal was accepted but I got busy at my new job (@latimes) and never even started. Could @erikaherzog cite this Tweet? Back me up @333books?|date=6 January 2018|access-date=6 January 2018|number=949779643116244993|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180106231737/https://twitter.com/annkpowers/status/949779643116244993|archive-date=6 January 2018|url-status=live}}[[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''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>{{cite book|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music|date=2017|publisher=Dey Street, William Morrow|location=New York|isbn=978-0-062-46369-2|oclc=981576251}}</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 (magazine)|No Depression]]'', and [[BuzzFeed]].<ref name=WSJ-BestFiction-2017>{{cite news|title=The Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2017|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-fiction-and-nonfiction-of-2017-1512660946|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=7 December 2017}}</ref><ref name=WSJ-GoodBooty-Review-2017>{{cite news|last1=Kirby|first1=David|title=The True Meaning of 'Tutti Frutti': Pop and rock are about more than sex. They're about bodily freedom and liberating joy. David Kirby reviews 'Good Booty' by Ann Powers|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-true-meaning-of-tutti-frutti-1502478974|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=11 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=NPR-GreatReads-2017>{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=Nicole|last2=Friedman|first2=Rose|author-link3=Petra Mayer|last3=Mayer|first3=Petra|author-link4=Glen Weldon|last4=Weldon|first4=Glen|title=NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2017's Great Reads|url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2017/#/tag/for-music-lovers|work=[[NPR]]|date=5 December 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name=NoDep-BestBooks-2017>{{cite news|last1=Carrigan|first1=Henry|title=A Few Good Books: The Best Books of 2017|url=http://nodepression.com/article/few-good-books-best-books-2017|work=[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]]|date=29 November 2017|access-date=31 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231104024/http://nodepression.com/article/few-good-books-best-books-2017|archive-date=31 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=BuzzFeed-BookGuide-2017>{{cite news|last1=Rebolini|first1=Arianna|title=The Ultimate BuzzFeed Books Gift Guide|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/the-ultimate-buzzfeed-books-gift-guide|work=[[BuzzFeed]]|date=5 December 2017|language=en}}</ref>

In 2024 she published a biography of singer-songwriter [[Joni Mitchell]], titled, ''Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Powers |first=Ann |title=Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell |date=2024-03-12 |publisher=Dey Street Books |isbn=978-0-06-246372-2}}</ref>

===Other works===
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>{{cite web|title=The Punk Singer: A Film About Kathleen Hanna|url=http://www.thepunksinger.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316064332/http://www.thepunksinger.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=16 March 2013|website=The Punk Singer|date=2013}}</ref> She also appeared in the documentaries ''[[The Gits]]'' and ''Undeniably Donnie''<ref name=BitterSoutherner-UndeniablyDonnie-2015>{{cite web|title=Undeniably Donnie|url=http://bittersoutherner.com/video/undeniably-donnie/#.Wkh3y1Q-fXE|website=The Bitter Southerner|date=10 October 2015}}</ref> in addition the ''Behind the Music Remastered'' episode on [[Heart (band)|Heart]].

==Personal life==
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>{{cite news|last=Wright|first=Rickey|title=Guilt and Pleasure|url=https://www.seattleweekly.com/music/guilt-and-pleasure/|work=[[Seattle Weekly]]|date=October 9, 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913230347/https://www.seattleweekly.com/music/guilt-and-pleasure/|archive-date=13 September 2020}}</ref> They moved to [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama]], in 2009,<ref name=LAObserved-LATimes-Exit-2011 /><ref name=CrimsonWhite-Tuscaloosa-2014>{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Francie|title=NPR journalist finds home in Tuscaloosa|url=http://cw.ua.edu/2014/04/17/npr-journalist-finds-home-in-tuscaloosa/|work=[[The Crimson White]]|date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423002904/http://cw.ua.edu/2014/04/17/npr-journalist-finds-home-in-tuscaloosa/|archive-date=23 April 2014}}</ref><ref name=TuscaloosaNews-QA-2014>{{cite news|last1=Hughes Cobb|first1=Mark|title=Local Q&A: Ann Powers, music critic|url=http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/entertainment/20140828/local-qa-ann-powers-music-critic|work=[[The Tuscaloosa News]]|date=28 August 2014|language=en}}</ref> later moving to [[East Nashville, Tennessee]], in 2015.<ref name=EastNashvillian-Nashville>{{cite news|last1=Gleason|first1=Holly|title=Super Powers: How a move to East Nashville invigorated NPR's lead music critic Ann Powers|url=http://theeastnashvillian.com/article/super-powers|work=The East Nashvillian|language=en|access-date=31 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231103738/http://theeastnashvillian.com/article/super-powers|archive-date=31 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> They have a daughter.<ref name=Parenting-OpenAdoption-2010>{{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Sharing Rebecca: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Open Adoption|url=http://www.parenting.com/article/open-adoption|work=[[Parenting (magazine)|Parenting]]|date=19 December 2010}}</ref>

==Honors and awards==
* 2008: Artist in Residence, The Popular Music Project at [[USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism|USC Annenberg]] [[Norman Lear Center]]<ref name=NormanLearCenter-PopularMusicProject>{{cite web|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=YOU BETTER THINK: Why Feminist Cultural Criticism Still Matters in a "Post-Feminist," Peer-to-Peer World|url=https://learcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AnnPowersYOUBETTERTHINK2.pdf|website=The Popular Music Project|publisher=USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center|date=10 March 2009}}</ref>
* 2010: [[ASCAP]], Deems Taylor Award for "The Cultural Critic: Lady Gaga, It's Time for Idol to Open the Closet Door"<ref name=LATimes-Gaga-2009>{{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Frank talk with Lady Gaga: The pop sensation's bold stances on feminism, sexuality, fame and so much more have helped elevate her music to its own art form|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-13-la-ca-lady-gaga13-2009dec13-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=13 December 2009}}</ref> and "My Night with Prince"<ref name=LATimes-NightWithPrince-2009>{{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Where music meets religion: What an L.A. Times writer learned spending a night with Prince in 2009|url=http://latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-archives-my-night-with-prince-20160421-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 January 2009}}</ref> for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name=ASCAP-Award-2010>{{cite news|last1=SanSaurus|first1=Esther|last2=Steinblatt|first2=Jim|title=42nd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Announced|url=https://www.ascap.com/press/2010/1108_TaylorAwards.aspx|work=[[ASCAP]]|date=8 November 2010|format=Press release}}</ref>

==Works and publications==
===Books===
* {{cite book|editor1-last=McDonnell|editor1-first=Evelyn|editor2-last=Powers|editor2-first=Ann|title=Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap|date=1995|publisher=Plexus|location=London|isbn=978-0-859-65233-9|oclc=35130945}}
* {{cite book|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America|date=2000|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-0-684-83808-3|oclc=42421011|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/weirdlikeusmyboh00powe_0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Amos|first1=Tori|last2=Powers|first2=Ann|title=Tori Amos: Piece by Piece. A Portrait of the Artist: Her Thoughts, Her Conversations|url=https://archive.org/details/toriamospiecebyp00amos|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=Broadway Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-307-49204-3|oclc=320322936}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Powers|editor1-first=Ann|title=Best Music Writing 2010|url=https://archive.org/details/bestmusicwriting00carr|url-access=registration|date=2010|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-306-81925-4|oclc=548569629}}
* {{cite book|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music|date=2017|publisher=Dey Street, William Morrow|location=New York|isbn=978-0-062-46369-2|oclc=981576251}}
* {{cite book |last=Powers |first=Ann |title=Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell |date=2024-03-12 |publisher=Dey Street Books |isbn=978-0-06-246372-2}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Prose |first=Francine |date=2024-06-16 |title=What We Think About When We Think About Joni Mitchell |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/books/review/traveling-joni-mitchell-ann-powers.html |access-date=2024-07-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=O’Hagan |first=Sean |date=2024-07-21 |title=Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/21/travelling-on-the-path-of-joni-mitchell-by-ann-powers-review-the-myriad-faces-of-a-musical-maverick |access-date=2024-07-29 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-22 |title=The Circle Game |url=https://www.altaonline.com/books/nonfiction/a61546293/ann-powers-traveling-on-the-path-of-joni-mitchell-book-review/ |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=Alta Online |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-05-31 |title=Joni Mitchell made music with the boys, but remained her own woman |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/05/31/joni-mitchell-ann-powers-biography-excerpt/ |access-date=2024-07-29 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-19 |title=How to Hug a Cactus Tree |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-to-hug-a-cactus-tree/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref>

===Selected writing===
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Pop Music; No Longer Rock's Playthings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/14/arts/pop-music-no-longer-rock-s-playthings.html?pagewanted=all|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=14 February 1993}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Queer in the Streets, Straight in the Sheets: Notes on Passing|journal=[[The Village Voice]]|date=29 June 1993|volume=38|issue=26|pages=24, 30–31|issn=0042-6180|id={{ProQuest|232206347}}}}&nbsp;{{closed access}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=In Defense of Nasty Art: Forget the efforts by the Congress to ban the NEA--how the heck do the rest of us deal with the issue of critiquing nasty art?|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.24.97/dirty-art-9730.html|work=[[North Bay Bohemian|Sonoma County Independent]]|publisher=[[Metro Silicon Valley|MetroActive]]|date=24 July 1997}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Critic's Notebook; A Surge of Sexism On the Rock Scene|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/02/arts/critic-s-notebook-a-surge-of-sexism-on-the-rock-scene.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2 August 1999}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Music; In Rock's Canon, Anyone and Everyone|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/arts/music-in-rock-s-canon-anyone-and-everyone.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 December 1999}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=When a Rock Star Goes Political|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/opinion/when-a-rock-star-goes-political.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 May 2002}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=The Power of Music: Talking With Eddie Vedder, Boots Riley, Amy Ray, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello|journal=[[The Nation]]|date=23 December 2002|isbn=9780815410188|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/power-music/|issn=0027-8378|oclc=95683549}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Never More. The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2005/07/05/never-more/|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=5 July 2005}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Latinos give new life to Neil Diamond anthem|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-et-america9-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=9 May 2006}} – ''Da Capo Best Music Writing 2007''
* {{cite journal|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=A Spy in the House of Love|journal=Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture|date=2008|volume=12|issue=1|pages=40–43|doi=10.1353/wam.0.0013|s2cid=194077911|issn=1090-7505|oclc=364801562}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title='Idol' Banter: Meet the Boys|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/staging1/2008/02/idol-banter-meet-the-boys.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107061141/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/staging1/2008/02/idol-banter-meet-the-boys.html|archive-date=7 January 2018|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=20 February 2008}} – ''Da Capo Best Music Writing 2009''
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Where music meets religion: What an L.A. Times writer learned spending a night with Prince in 2009|url=http://latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-archives-my-night-with-prince-20160421-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 January 2009}}
* {{cite web|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=YOU BETTER THINK: Why Feminist Cultural Criticism Still Matters in a "Post-Feminist," Peer-to-Peer World|url=https://learcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AnnPowersYOUBETTERTHINK2.pdf|website=The Popular Music Project|publisher=[[USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism|USC Annenberg]] [[Norman Lear Center]]|date=10 March 2009}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Frank talk with Lady Gaga: The pop sensation's bold stances on feminism, sexuality, fame and so much more have helped elevate her music to its own art form|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-13-la-ca-lady-gaga13-2009dec13-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=13 December 2009}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Lorde Sounds Like Teen Spirit|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/bestmusic2013/2013/12/04/248864263/lorde-sounds-like-teen-spirit|work=[[NPR]]|date=5 December 2013|language=en}}
* {{cite book|last=Powers|first=Ann|editor-last=Wilson|editor-first=Carl|title=Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste|date=2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4411-6677-7|chapter=If the Girls Were All Transported|pages=183–188}}
* {{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Is It Worth It To Work It?|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2014/05/08/310703564/is-it-worth-it-to-work-it|work=[[NPR]]|date=8 May 2014|language=en}}
* {{cite book|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|editor1-last=Lethem|editor1-first=Jonathan|editor2-last=Dettmar|editor2-first=Kevin J. H.|title=Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay Z|date=2017|publisher=Library of America|location=New York|isbn=978-1-598-53531-0|chapter=Houses of the Holy|oclc=959032031}} – on [[PJ Harvey]]'s album ''[[Rid of Me]]''

== See also ==
* [[Album era]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|nm2313587}}
* [https://www.npr.org/people/140955737/ann-powers Ann Powers] at [[NPR Music]]
* [https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/161375944/ann-powers Ann Powers] at ''The Record,'' [[NPR Music]]
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/ann_powers/index.html Ann Powers] at ''[[The New York Times]]''

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