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Janis - The Life and Music from the Queen of Rock (Paperback)
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It’s been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the
‘creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation’s mythology’. But how
did a middle-class girl from Texas become a ’60s countercultural icon?
Janis’ parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But
the arrival of a brother shattered the bond she had with her
intellectual maverick of a father, an oil engineer. And her own
maverick instincts alienated her from her socially conformist mother.
That break with her parents, along with the rejection of her high
school peers, who disapproved of her beatnik look and racially
progressive views, and wrongly assumed she was sexually promiscuous,
cemented her sense of herself as an outcast. She found her tribe with a
group of offbeat young men a year ahead of her, who loved her
intellectual curiosity, her passion for conversation, and her
adventurous search for the blues. Although she never stopped craving
the approval of her parents and hometown, she left Port Arthur at
seventeen determined to prove she could be loved.
She tried college twice, and dropped out both times. She ran off to
California, but came back when her heavy drug use scared her into it.
She almost signed up for a life as a domesticated, hang-the-curtains
wife. But instead, during a second stint on the West Coast, she
launched a career that would see her crowned the queen of rock and roll.
What no one besides Holly George-Warren has captured in such intimate
detail is the way Janis Joplin teetered between the powerful woman you
hear in her songs and the little girl who just wanted to go home and
feel emotionally safe there. The pain of that dichotomy fuelled her
music – and ultimately killed her.
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