Resistance

Tori Amos has been one of the music industry's most enduring and inventive artists since her first solo album, Little Earthquakes. Her songs have always mixed the personal with the political, from the harrowing portrayal of sexual assault in Me and a Gun, to Scarlet's Walk, made after 9/11, to Native Invader in 2017. In this book she reflects on that body of work and on the moment we are living in.

Amos looks back from her teenage years playing hotel bars in Washington, DC, for the politically powerful through three decades of a formidable career. She explains how she made meaningful, politically resonant music in the face of patriarchal power structures. Her open feminism and her commitment to marginalized people, she says, always guided her.

Using some of the most powerful political songs in her catalogue, she offers compassionate guidance and practical advice on engaging with intention in a turbulent world. She speaks directly to supporters of #MeToo and Time's Up and to young people fighting for their rights and visibility. Resistance is written for anyone determined to steer the world in a better direction.