JANIS JOPLIN - JANIS: HER LIFE AND MUSIC - PAPERBACK - BOOK
This extraordinarily intimate and āgrippingā (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishesĀ the Queen of Rock & RollĀ as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
Janis Joplinās first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance.
Janis Joplin has become a legend known as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasnāt all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle downābut couldnāt, or wouldnāt. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get awayāeven after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco.
Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplinās family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews,Ā JanisĀ is the āsignificance-establishing project Joplin appreciators have been waiting forā (The New York Times Book Review).
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This extraordinarily intimate and āgrippingā (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishesĀ the Queen of Rock & RollĀ as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
Janis Joplinās first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance.
Janis Joplin has become a legend known as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasnāt all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle downābut couldnāt, or wouldnāt. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get awayāeven after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco.
Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplinās family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews,Ā JanisĀ is the āsignificance-establishing project Joplin appreciators have been waiting forā (The New York Times Book Review).
