Janis: Her Life and Music

by Holly George-Warren

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476793107
• ISBN13: 9781476793108
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"