Janis Joplin's Influence On The Counterculture

Janis Joplin’s Game Janis Joplin was a music performer who played a vital role in the transformation of American society during the 1960’s. She is recognized for having had a tremendously powerful influence on people of the counterculture. This essay uses the humanistic perspective to explain the significance link between Janis Joplin and the effect that she had on the counterculture. By understand Janis Joplin from a emotional point, one will better understand the reasoning behind her actions and motives. According to Jeffery S. Nevid PhD through the utilization of the humanistic perspective “the 1960’s and 1970’s was a time when many people searched inward to find direction and meaning in their lives”(431). Further more, the humanistic view provides clues as to why people gravitated towards Janis Joplin, and what she represent to them. In uniquely form, there was a definite relationship between the counterculture and the emotions that were elicited from it.

Janis when against gender roles to challenge the norms of society, and as a result her rebellion became significant to the public. In a way, she became famous by shocking and surprising people, and as a performer she captivated and moved her audience through being original. When it came to women’s roles in society, there were very specific expectations that women were meant to follow. During the women’s liberation movement Janet was seen as a kind of model in which women began to mimic. Sexual liberation was another movement that was taking place, in which sexuality became a large part of self-expression. Women were the primary targets of criticism, in which Janis played the important role of mocking that criticism with highly sexualized performances that for that time had not been done by a