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Janis
Her Life and Music
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Narrated by:
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Nina Arianda
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Written by:
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Holly George-Warren
About this listen
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
This blazingly intimate 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 passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in this audio, 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 a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.
©2019 Holly George-Warren (P)2019 Simon & Schuster AudioYou may also enjoy...
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- Alexandria DaSilva
- 2023-10-23
Heartbreaking and beautiful
This book just continues to confirm to me what a beautiful human and talent Janis is and was. The world often forgets that artistry usually stems from a deep pain and or experience. Janis was constantly in search of acceptance and love, but kept looking in the wrong places for it. Loved everything about this book that just gave more insight into her life. Just as I have read other books that of her life in the past, this too brought me to tears when her death was announced. If you’re a Joplin fan or even just a fan of Human Nature, listen to this.
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- jolene
- 2021-01-07
Made a human out of a legand
Narration was great. Story kept reminding us how lost Janis was. How she didn't balance hard and fragile but she was both but for reasons of her own. She was just a struggling soul with an amazing gift, therefore her story continues being told. Without her gift this would just be a tragic most often sad woman story.
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