Janis Her Life and Music
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Simon & Schuster
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
13.10.2020
Verlag
Simon & SchusterSeitenzahl
400
Maße (L/B/H)
21,3/13,6/3 cm
Gewicht
376 g
Farbe
Anthrazit / Grau
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4767-9311-5
This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
Janis Joplin's 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 wasn't 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 down?but couldn't, or wouldn't. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away?even 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 Joplin's family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is the "significance-establishing project Joplin appreciators have been waiting for" (The New York Times Book Review).
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A powerful voice, a vulnerable soul
In 1943, Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas. From there, it was a long way to San Francisco, the hot spot of hippie-culture during the 1960s. In only four years time Janis became a countercultural icon. Her powerful voice, her commitment to music, her rousing onstage performances made her one of the best female vocalists ever. The other side of Janis Joplin is the little girl from Texas, always looking for love and recognition. To solve this conflict, she used booze and drugs, mainly heroin, and this finally led to her early death in 1970. Listen to her music and you´ll discover an artist who will cast a spell on you.
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