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...dying is cheap. For little added cost, it can turn a 32 cents T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.The fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes; he does it all himself, and his stove is usually covered with bubbling dye pots. Sebastian learned the craft from one one of its best- known practitioners...
...poet Neil Young finally was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today, along with Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa. Young's most recent album was last year's "Sleeps With Angels."Copyright 1995 Time Inc. All rights reserved...
...part of American musical culture is untouched by Joplin's influence. Stride piano, boogie-woogie, Dixieland, Big Band swing, blues, soul and rock 'n' roll -- to some degree, all these forms were adumbrated in Joplin's works. But Joplin's achievement transcends pop music; indeed, the soft-spoken, neatly dressed whorehouse pianist was a master melodist who would rightly be called an American Schubert...
Although he chronicles Joplin's activities with admirable exhaustiveness, Berlin stops short of exploring the inner life of his subject. That is unfortunate, for despite Joplin's constant travels and his uncanny knack for turning up in the right place at the precise point in history when his music would have the most impact (in Tin Pan Alley, for example, in the early 20th century), his life was not particularly full of incident, and his intellectual development may have been as important as any documented event. Joplin had a fierce desire to show the whites in America that blacks were...
...Joplin believed passionately that neither the idiom of a composition nor the setting in which it was played had anything to do with its quality -- and that race had nothing to do with quality whatsoever. "What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay," he wrote in 1908. "Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture." In an age when the quest for "diversity" has turned into a form of cultural apartheid, Joplin's achievements and values serve as a reminder...