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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing, Delbert McClinton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Etta James, Dinah Washington, Louisiana Red, Big Joe Turner, Hot Lips Page, Jes Holtsø, Doc Pomus, Eva Taylor, Alberta Hunter, Angela Strehli, Bertha Hill, George Adams, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Crystal Bowersox, Baby Boy Warren, Kerstin Radtke Buchfelner, Darrell Nulisch, Sippie Wallace, Abie Ames, Buster Bennett, Lucille Bogan, Ma Rainey, Sara Martin, Sonny Rhodes, Leroy Foster, Lou Ann Barton, Peg Leg Howell, Carrie Smith, Little Hudson Shower, Shakey Jake Harris, Clara Smith, Joël Daydé, Mojo Mendiola, Mavis Staples, Blue Lu Barker, Roy Hawkins, Harry Crafton, Walter Davis, Tommy Tucker,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Little Miss Cornshucks oder auch Lil' Miss Cornshucks (dt: Kleine Miss Kornhülsen, * 26. Mai 1923 in Dayton (Ohio) als Mildred Cummings, verheiratete Jorman; † 11. November 1999 in Indianapolis) war eine US-amerikanische Rhythm and Blues und Jazzsängerin und Songwriterin, die für ihre extravagante Bühnenshow in den 1940er und frühen 50er Jahren bekannt war und mit ihrem Gesangsstil zum Vorbild für R&B- und Soulsänger wie LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown oder Aretha Franklin wurde. Mildred Cummings war das jüngste Kind einer großen musikalischen Familie; sie sang schon früh mit ihren Schwestern Spirituals im Raum Dayton, die als Cummings Sisters auftraten. Bereits als Jugendliche in den 30ern trat sie in Amateurshows oder vor der Familie als Solistin auf. Dabei bevorzugte sie Balladen und entwickelte eine Bühnengardeobe, die bei den vielen zugezogenen, vom Lande stammenden Südstaatl...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=5437708 ... Read more

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Janis Joplin - The Mask
If you plan on reading several books about Janis Joplin, my advice is don't make this the last one. Going down with Janis describes hard drinking, hard druging part of her personality, the mask, with just glimpses of something deeper beneath. Although it is well written, descriptive, at moments maybe even too descriptive, with humor, honesty and a real affection for Janis it leaves a very bitter afetertaste. It is a very brave portrait of an intimate and tumultuos relationship between Janis Joplin and maybe her closest lover and friend Peggy Caserta.

Certainly descriptive
In some respects, this book does provide a more, er , "fleshed out" portrait of Janis Joplin than the other more conventional JJ biographies. That co-author Peggy Caserta and Joplin had sex and used drugs together is an established fact. As to how meaningful the relationship was beyond that is a subject of conjecture. While the book is obviously a case of being a 'tell-all' (hence the authorship in the title reading 'by Peggy Caserta as told to Dan Knapp') that doesn't necessary preclude the content from being truthful. Most of the book is devoted to the period shortly before Joplin became famous up until the time of her death, and is a series of first-hand accounts of Caserta's interactions with Joplin, which more-or-less boil down a bunch of encounters of the two shooting up heroin and having sex in various seedy hotel rooms. Caserta, despite her claims of having owned a boutique in California during this period, comes across as the type of typical hanger-on rock stars attract. The portrait of Joplin is fairly consistent with the conventional wisdom of what she was like. It was an interesting and quick read, although the possibility that it was created primarily because Caserta needed money in the wake of Joplin's death does exist. With that comes the possibility that some of tales inside were embellished re: amping up the sex and drugs factor. Most of the invectives hurled at the book from the Joplin camp probably are a result of an opinion that, regardless of fact, had Caserta truly loved Joplin she might well have kept these stories to herself. One theme that does emerge in the book is how Joplin often felt used by her various lovers. She had trust issues when dealing with others on a romantic level (both before and especially after she became famous), and often doubted the sincerity of those she gave herself to in that capacity. After reading this account, it seems to me that for Caserta to even be involved with writing a book like this would confirm some of the fears Joplin had regarding betrayal. Fly-on-the-wall private stuff of a nature so personal at times that it made me cringe to be reading things I can't imagine Joplin would have ever wanted in the public domain.

Review Of Going Down With Janis
I love Janis Joplin. And I love this book. I will tell you why. I was 13 when I first heard of Janis Joplin who died several years before I was born. I loved her music immediately and began collecting- seriously collecting- on her at about 15. I acquired my prized, autographed (Peggy Caserta) copy of Going Down With Janis the old fashioned way. I searched for it. Long before amazon or the internet, I scoured used bookstores and libraries. I read it for the first time at 16 and I have re read it over the years. I believe it is a realistic portrait of two people who knew and cared for each other deeply. More importantly, I believe it's an interesting and important reflection of a time and a place where being different, excessive wasn't only accepted but encouraged. Peggy Caserta didn't have to write this book. No one looks good here. No one looks cool. But if that's what you hope to find when reading this book then you miss the point of the book completely. It's brave, stirring,compelling and it's one hell of a good read. Peggy just puts it out there. Your acceptance of her is neither desired or required. She tells an honest story from the heart. As a result we see a side of Janis never really shown before. The human side. Beyond the genius, the music, the pain there was a woman who enjoyed love, life, getting drunk and high, singing the blues... She did it her way. Peggy was lucky enough to be there for the ride and to intimately know this gifted, flawed, beautiful, enigmatic creature. Kudos to Peggy for telling it like it is. I hope Peggy found some peace and is smiling today wherever she is.

Urban myth???
i read THIS book in high school, and *loaned* it to either Carol Imperato or Susie Cohen...and NEVER saw it again!!!

As a chile i met Janis whilst i walked the streets of the Village in the mad hope of meeting Bob Dylan, and that fateful day when i happened to be by the Chelsea Hotel because i "heard" Jim Morrison was in town...and if Dylan was around, THEY would have to *summit,* right???...WE heard a woman whose voice was unmistakable shout---What are you kids doing...playing hookey???

We turned around, and there SHE was...and to this day i can STILL remember the vibrancy of her smile, the warmth of her soul.

WHEN i first read "Going Down With Janis" i thought it was written by some starf**ker out to tarnish her reputation, but as the Jerry Springer mantra---We LOVE lesbians---attest, i was fascinated by the story.While i cannot attest to the accuracy of the story presented in this book...hell, my age hadn't even hit double digits when i met HER...the portrayal of Janis in THIS book is believable.

She WAS a vulnerable woman from what i remember...and IF she was a lesbian, then i can only rejoice that she found SOME happiness with the author.

A MUST READ for any afficianado!!!

To Live and Die Young in L.A.
This little book is a first-person account by Peggy Caserta (with Dan Knapp), and Peggy Caserta just about reeks from every page.

The book reads like a novel, it's that engrossing.There's plenty of sex, mostly Peggy with female lovers, but she loves men, too.Some of her male idols, like Big Brother Sam Andrew, are painted as selfish, wimpy pigs.I see from his web page that Brother Sam has tried to make a writing career.Not a groupy, I'd never heard of him before reading this book, and after reading it I don't want to know any more.

Another Big Brother, Peter Albin, indicated that Peggy's book was a sell-out to capitalize on her relationship with Janis, to make money to feed her drug habit.Whatever.

There's not too much available on Janis, and this little memoir fills a gap, I think.Peggy holds no punches.I guess Dan Knapp helped her to keep from sounding like Peter Albin's sell-out.

Peggy, instead, seems in this book like a loving person, kind of a big-sister-lover to Janis, as well as to another young lady (her Debbie from L.A.) and at the same time Peggy was a steady lover to a more "butch" lady, her girlfriend, Kimmie.

Then there are all the other personalities of that day and age, late 1960s and early 1970s in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles and at Woodstock.One scene Peggy writes, I'll not soon forget: her and Janis fixing inside a stinky at Woodstock, with girls outside crying to come in, they have to defecate."We know what you're doing in there, Janis!" one waiting girl supposedly called through the stinky door.Paranoid, Janis was like, "How could they know????"

Janis seems more like a side figure in this memoir, well, a main side figure, but still the book tells much more about Peggy than about Janis, which is of course how a personal memoir has to be.

Janis is gone, but, as they say, her spirit lives on in the next and the next generation.She was a unique individual, apparently a talented artist (I didn't especially like her music, but she was obviously unique, and by the way, I was there in Berkeley when she and Big Brother started out....I used to see Country Joe and the Fish in the People's Park in Berkeley in 1967-1968, where they gave free concerts).

Diximus.
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JANIS JOPLIN
Janis Joplin was a rock singer who was scheduled to appear at a rock concert at Highland Park, Illinois on August 5, 1970. There was a report that this concert was to be disrupted. In August 1969. Janis Joplin appeared at Woodstock.


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Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorders
Psychoanalyzing the dead?That's a good one.
I think I have to quote Britney Spears here."Huh?"
All one needs to do is go to an AA meeting and you will find hundreds of people with your so called "borderline personality disorder."It's called alcoholism.Try growing up with them for parents.Talk about needed therapy.

Assumptions
The authors made an assumption about Jim before research was undertaken and I feel this coloured subsequent research. There's much more information available about Jim than was read by the authors who seem to have taken information that supports their point of view and ignored the rest. Jim's stage persona was a carefully orchestrated act based on a book called "Mass Hysteria and Crowd Control".He was playing a part. They were after all film graduates and film heavily influenced their stage presentations. Jim's poems were apocalyptic but that was his genre. The therapy sessions in the book are non-existent and are based on the authors' own preconceptions. Jim was extremely shy (said one Door and confirmed by another), there is some evidence he had a nervous breakdown, his home life was volatile and he drank. He couldn't keep up the act. He hated heroin and wouldn't take it deliberately. Where's the examination of the paramedics' reports to the Parisian police?Increasingly severe asthma attacks led to a prescription which he neglected to fill. A rock star's death by something as common as a heart attack caused by chronic asthma is not newsworthy. I'm disappointed in the lack of examination of all evidence before drawing a conclusion of BPD. The authors have analysed the myth, not the man.

Finally an explanation that makes sense!
Nowhere in the literature is there an analysis and narrative like this. Intense, compelling and riveting, the book explains why these two icons were so tragically self-destructive. In doing so,
they have illuminated and clarified for the public, the complex nature of the poorly understood borderline disorder. So many peoplecan benefit from reading "Living in the Dead Zone".Bravo gentlemen!

Insightful analysis of two deepyl troubled people
I was unable to put this book down once I began reading the accounts offered by Faris and Faris.Their analysis of the borderline disorder was so disturbingly realistic in my own experience with my son that I thought they were writing to me.The therapy sessions they created with Janis and Jim were not only revealing but astonishing when you consider how good their music was.

This book is a most excellent read, filled with insights into the behavior of the borderline. And I truly did appreciate the sociological observations as well which contextualized the 1960s so well...and I do remember them as if it was yesterday.

Final Response to J
To J one more time, I promise:

My brother and I have had a good laugh at your latest response, not that your other responses weren't just as laughable. But your latest was the most sweeping and most revealing and therefore the most pathetic. This will, however, be our last effort to have a reasonable discussion with you.We see no reason to continue a conversation with someone who reveals his ignorance and arrogance in almost every sentence.You love Jim Morrison, you love his poetry, you dismiss entirely psychiatry and psychology, we are completely wrong about everything. You're the only one who apparently can KNOW anything.And you think we don't understand you?

In the cute way that people who really don't understand a discipline do, you accuse us of psychoanalyzing you. There's no doubt that you do not understand the fields of psychology or psychiatry, and psychoanalysis-they are all very different modes of investigation, not that you would trouble yourself with such distinctions since you already know everything you need to know from the misreadings of Szasz, and Laing.You might try reading pioneers in the field, who really do KNOW something from extensive empirically-based and theoretically well-grounded research. Read John Gunderson's work from Harvard, Otto Kernberg's from Cornell, James Grotstein from Stamford, to name a few.But of course they are all part of the psychobabble industry to you, aren't they.You ask us to stick to what we know best, rather than critique your hero's poetry? You don't appear to impose any restrictions on your statements about psychology and psychiatry. That must be because you think you already KNOW. Right? Wow. Must be comfortable to live in such a fatuous world.

Since you don't appear to know anything about serious empirical research in psychiatry, although I'm sure you think you're a quick study, in the absence of that knowledge you don't appear to be in any position to comment on what we can or cannot know. Borderline personality disorder is now one of the most carefully researched, empirically confirmed diagnoses available to us today. And the possibility for moving backward, historically, to look at what we do know about popular figures and legends, although messy and complicated is not IMPOSSIBLE (Should I drop the caps?) and can be very helpful in popularizing such a disorder to the public. Nor is it unethical to do so.

Among the reasons we believe so confidently that you are only superficially familiar with these fields rests fundamentally on your citation of Szasz, and Laing, for example, not to mention your wild-eyed claim that one cannot really KNOW anything (your emphasis) about the psychology of other people.Szasz and Laing, the most often misunderstood and at the same time most often cited by those pseudo critics, hostile in the extreme to psychiatry and psychology, would never have made such silly claims that we can never KNOW.

You wrote that "the entirely subjective nature of your science," as if there's no such thing as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, posttraumatic stress disorders, identity disorders, to cite a few. These diagnoses are neither subjective nor unscientific. Your dismissal of them as such reveals such ignorance that we choose not to bother you with more complete accounts of the works of brilliant clinical researchers, especially since you appear to have a comic book view of Szasz and Laing as dismissing those serious folks. And we believe any further conversation with you is both pointless and distasteful.P.S. I am not a therapist, my brother Gerald is, a fact you would have known if you had read our book-not to trouble you with a little thing.This was our last response but we are sure that the hero-worshipper within you will compel you once again to respond. ... Read more

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This book contains dozens of photographs of Janis' concert at Madison Square Garden on 19 December 1969, plus a complete cross-referenced discography, videography and bibliography. ... Read more

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Not worth it...
The book has many blank pages...the photo are okay. 2 are good, but not worth it to me.

Extraordinary photography!
Black and White photos with some text of Janis Joplin's concert at Madison Square Garden.Banks capture's the spirit Janis.Photojournalism at it's best. An excellent discography as well in included. Well worth having inyour library ... Read more

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This book contains dozens of photographs of Janis' concert at Madison Square Garden on 19 December 1969, plus a complete cross-referenced discography, videography and bibliography. ... Read more

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Not worth it...
The book has many blank pages...the photo are okay. 2 are good, but not worth it to me.

Extraordinary photography!
Black and White photos with some text of Janis Joplin's concert at Madison Square Garden.Banks capture's the spirit Janis.Photojournalism at it's best. An excellent discography as well in included. Well worth having inyour library ... Read more

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This investigation into the psychedelic music of San Francisco outlines its musical and cultural context and identifies key characteristics.The origins, development, decline, and revival of this vibrant and innovative form of rock, which emerged in the mid-1960s, are traced through an original model of musical style evolution.Part of the research involved interviews with members of bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, and Its A Beautiful Day.

This is a book edition of a Ph.D. thesis for an interdisciplinary program in humanities.The approach blends music, history, and communication studies.Craig Morrison is a musician (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and is also the author of Go Cat Go! Rockabilly Music and Its Makers (published by the University of Illinois Press) and American Popular Music: Rock and Roll (published by Facts on File). ... Read more

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an in-depth study of San Francisco music in the '60s
From the author - I have loved this music since it was new: the mid-1960s.I bought my first guitar in 1966, inspired by the British invasion, the Northwest Sound (I grew up in Victoria BC), and California folk rock and psychedelic rock.I wanted to understand this great creative and cultural force, and so spent several years researching it and interviewing participants.

This book is for anyone who wants to see into the details of psychedelic music, focusing on what happened in San Francisco while acknowledging sounds from London, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.The book outlines the musical and cultural context and identifies key characteristics (musical ones from records, and some visual elements from album cover art). The origins, development, decline, and revival of San Francisco psychedelic rock are traced through an original model of musical style evolution.

I did dozens of face to face interviews with members of bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, and It's A Beautiful Day. This is a book edition of a Ph.D. thesis for an interdisciplinary program in humanities. The writing is clear and the approach blends the disciplines of music, history, and communication studies.

I am a Montreal musician (guitar, keyboards, vocals) who has recorded several CDs, such as Live at the Oscar.I teach music history courses at Concordia University: Rock and Roll and Its Roots, Pop/ Soul and Its Roots, and The Music of the Beatles.My other books are Go Cat Go!: ROCKABILLY MUSIC AND ITS MAKERS (Music in American Life)and Rock And Roll (American Popular Music). ... Read more

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Dr. Gerald Faris, clinical psychologist, lecturer and former assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and Dr. Ralph Faris, professor of sociology and Director of the Honors Program at the College of Philadelphia explain their findings about the lives of two icons of 1960s music and how each suffered from a little known, complicated condition now clinically defined as “borderline personality disorder.” Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison -Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder describes the torment of these two personalities–Joplin, the top female blues artist and Morrison, the influential rocker and lead singer of The Doors.

The most captivating aspects of the book are the simulated psychotherapy sessions between Janis and then Jim, and an experienced, psychoanalytic psychotherapist.The sessions are riveting and reveal the devastating and relentless nature of the disorder.To those who are irresistibly drawn to the powerful music of these two personalities, Living in the Dead Zone provides insights into their behaviors that are both accessible and provocative.The authors have presented an account of the two performers that has broader applications to the many in our society who suffer from a borderline condition.

This book is designed to increase public awareness of the disorder and to assist mental health workers to recognize patients so afflicted.Living in the Dead Zone may also help readers distinguish between the social and the psychological, between cultural trends allowing for easy acceptance of individual idiosyncrasies and the common recognition of emotional imbalance.
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One of the very best music biographies
Everybody knows about Janis Joplin. She had that raspy Texas voice and those hippie clothes and she drank and swore like a guy. She was famous for being wild, famous for giving everything she had every time she sang. And then, just two weeks after Jimi Hendrix died, she overdosed on heroin in a Los Angeles motel room. RIP the '60s.

Myra Friedman was Janis Joplin's best friend at the time. She was also her publicist, which is to suggest how hard up for friends Janis was. Happily for us, Myra Friedman is an extremely decent person who has a great memory, a large commitment to the truth and a unique vantage point to tell the story of a slow-motion suicide.

Joplin's family didn't like this book when it first appeared in 1973. Neither, if you read the comments on Amazon.com, do her fans. "Buried Alive" is a harsh, relentless read that is neither a tell-all or a hype job.It's just a story of one step up, two steps back. Here's Joplin being voted "ugliest man on campus" at the University of Texas. Here she is sleeping with anyone who would sleep with her. Here she is, unable to be alone. Unable to live without liquor or drugs. Unable to live, period, and so, holding nothing back, coming (ironically) to be cast as a woman who lived full-tilt. "Man, I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be 70 sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV," she said. And everyone thought that was righteous. And she died at 27.

Of the many strengths of this book --- which is among the best biographies on my music shelf --- is the reporting that Friedman has done on Joplin's childhood. She did not, as you might think, come from the wrong side of the tracks and suffer a hardscrabble childhood. Her father, an engineer for Texaco, read Robert Graves; her mother was attentive and loving. But Janis was unattractive and needy --- hers is a sad story we have all witnessed, the story of the ugly girl.

Her weight went up, and up again. Her skin was so bad her face had to be sanded. And, by 14, she had opinions that might have been tolerated if she had been a pretty Southern deb-in-training, but were death to a fatty. She became, says Friedman, "as hated as an epidemic of horse fever."

What is such a girl to do? Again, the story is cliche: hang out with "bad" kids, drink and drug, have sex with anyone who will have you. Joplin broke through in one way: She could sing. And, through her singing, she could convert her pain into audience pleasure and approval. Goodbye, Texas. Hello, San Francisco.

In l965, there were a handful of bands in San Francisco: The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service. Janis arrived just in time to power Big Brother and the Holding Company. A year later, with 1,500 bands in San Francisco, she was a queen.

Albert Grossman was the next step. He managed Dylan and The Band. He was both silent and witty. He inhaled power. He exhaled contempt. Big Brother signed with him. The band said, "We must make $75,000 a year." Grossman shrugged. "Say $100,000," he said, and he put that figure in the contract.

Of course they earned more. And, on her own, Janis was poised to be an even greater star. The only problem was Janis, and her needs. When Friedman signed on to work for Grossman in 1968, the first thing she noticed about Janis was that her performance was "a headlong assault, a hysterical discharge, an act of total extermination." And that, in her eyes, there was a desperation at once compelling and off-putting. But Friedman did not see in Joplin the one thing her employer couldn't tolerate --- heroin.

The last two years of Janis Joplin's life aren't pretty. Friedman makes a pretty fair case that Joplin overdosed just when she was finally happy with a man, a producer, her career. But it wasn't enough. Nothing was ever enough. Except, perhaps, oblivion.

If you know anyone who takes serious drugs or if that is your situation or if you have a hole in your heart that no amount of affection or attention can patch, this book is a fire bell in the night --- Friedman gives you Joplin's life, minute by minute, dialogue intact, and shows you how unglamorous and miserable it was. If you are among those who wasn't around for the '60s and believes they were a rocking good time, you need this book, and bad, because you need to know that fun isn't free and that this particular fun had a high, high price.

And then there are the music lovers: those who have heard Joplin and know that she's as legendary a talent as Callas, and those who have no clue. For them, most of all, this is a necessary book, for it shows how a looks-challenged kid from Port Arthur, Texas used her pain to make art. The tragedy of Janis Joplin is that she never figured out how to move beyond the hottest blues a white woman ever sang and make a life for herself.

"Summertime...and the living is easy." I can hear her now. And miss her. After thirty-five years, that's something.

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