Ann Powers

Critic

1964-02-04

American music critic and journalist known for influential writing on popular music, gender, and culture. She has served in senior editorial roles at NPR Music and published books on contemporary music and criticism.

Quotes by Ann Powers

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
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You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
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