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Author:
Ann Powers
Publisher:
Dey Street Books
Date:
June 11, 2024
NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell.
What The Reviewers Say
Mitchell is one of a handful of women in her era who were invited into the music world’s clubby little definition of genius, and Powers has the chops to explain exactly why that was so, both through her virtuosic writing on Mitchell’s musicianship and creativity and through a sophisticated interrogation of the gender and race politics of the era. She shows us how we can love an artist like Mitchell and let her be human, too, how we can understand her genius from — forgive me, Joni — both sides now.
Remarkably insightful.
A highly personal, even confessional, 400-plus-page meditation on Mitchell’s life and work.
Intricately probing.
