Description 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 has a doctorate in English and lives in Austin, Texas..
About the Author 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.
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.
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.
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.
Description 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
