1. Gordon, Bonnie. “Tori Amos’s Inner Voices.” Women’s Voices Across Musical Worlds. Ed. Jane A. Bernstein. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.
This article discusses how important the performance aspect of Tori Amos’s music is. As I said in my paper proposal, I felt that it was unfortunate that videos and song clips could not be a part of this paper. Gordon goes into great detail trying to describe the experience of watching Tori Amos perform. This article could be used as an example of how beneficial it could be to combine an academic paper with new media.
2. Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
In the chapter “Transmedia Storytelling,” he discusses how different mediums can be used to tell one story. He believes that each medium will do what it does best and the outcome will be better because of the different forms used. This will support the argument that some papers, such as ones about movies or performers, would be more effective if they could include video clips, etc.
Almost anything you need to know about Tori Amos can be found here. This is one of the most popular fan sites on the web. If I end up focusing on writing that fans do, how the internet brought fans together, how being a Tori Amos fan has become more interactive and “hobby-like” because of the internet, I will primarily use this site.
4. http://www.myspace.com/iampossesanta
http://pipolitics.livejournal.com/
http://clydespeaks.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/toriamos
All of these sites are blogs for the different characters Tori Amos created for her last album. They are not real people, but she has made them very realistic by creating these blogs for them. This also allows fans to interact with them and become more absorbed in the concept of the album. (But it’s also very weird) I will use these sites too if I focus on online writing regarding Tori Amos. Like undented.com, it allows fans to be more interactive.
5. http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/golden-pages/Archive/Women/1999/brandeis.html
This link is an online syllabus for a class that is going to include Tori Amos’s music and videos as part of the curriculum. After looking around online, I found that there were several college (and even some high school) courses which included listening to Amos’s music and watching her videos. Discussing how both listening to Amos’s music and seeing the videos is important to the study of her work, will support the argument that they should be combined with writing about her, too.
6. Burns, Lori, and Melisse Lafrance. Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity, & Popular Music.
New York: Routledge, 2002.
Similar to Gordon’s article, Burns and Lafrance discuss one of Tori Amos’s songs in depth and then spend an entire chapter on discussing how the video is just as important as the song. To argue this point, it would be useful to show the video alongside the argument.
more to come…
