Northeastern University is pleased to host ANN POWERS NPR music correspondent and author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, about creating NPR’s recent list of “150 Greatest Albums Made by Women,” and about the state of music criticism in the U.S.
ANN POWERS is NPR Music’s critic and correspondent. Powers served as chief pop music critic at the Los Angeles Times from 2006 until she joined NPR. Prior to the Los Angeles Times, she was senior critic at Blender and senior curator at Experience Music Project. From 1997 to 2001 Powers was a pop critic at The New York Times and before that worked as a senior editor at the Village Voice. Powers began her career working as an editor and columnist at San Francisco Weekly.
Event funded by Faculty Innovations in Diversity and Academic Excellence Grant.
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