Tori Amos's Boys for Pele -- Amy Gentry, Paperback Gary Springer Publishers Weekly 09/17/2012

Publishers Weekly 09/17/2012

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Tori Amos's Boys for Pele -- Amy Gentry, Paperback Gary Springer Publishers Weekly 09/17/2012It'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