AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current
political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum
singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little
Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry's most
enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual
assault in "Me and a Gun" to her post-September 11 album, Scarlet's
Walk, to her latest album, Native Invader, her work has never shied
away from intermingling the personal with the political.
Amos began playing piano as a teenager for the politically powerful at
hotel bars in Washington, DC, during the formative years of the
post-Goldwater and then Koch-led Libertarian and Reaganite movements.
The story continues to her time as a hungry artist in Los Angeles to the
subsequent three decades of her formidable music career. Amos explains
how she managed to create meaningful, politically resonant work against
patriarchal power structures--and how her proud declarations of feminism
and her fight for the marginalized always proved to be her guiding
light. She teaches us to engage with intention in this tumultuous global
climate and speaks directly to supporters of #MeToo and #TimesUp, as
well as young people fighting for their rights and visibility in the
world.
Filled with compassionate guidance and actionable advice--and using some
of the most powerful, political songs in Amos's canon--this book is for
anyone determined to steer the world back in the right direction.
