Joplin

Route 66 stop

Joplin is a city in southwestern Missouri, near the Kansas and Oklahoma borders.

It developed as a lead and zinc mining center in the late 1800s.

The name also refers to two unrelated American musicians: Scott Joplin, the ragtime composer known for "The Entertainer," and Janis Joplin, the blues-rock singer of the 1960s.

Scott

ragtime

Syncopated piano genre

pianist · composer · opera · stride · sheet music · vaudeville · cakewalk · polyrhythm · Texarkana · St. Louis

Janis

rock

Solid earthen material

Pearl · Texas · Summer of Love · Monterey Pop · 27 Club · vocalist · Cheap Thrills · counterculture · Haight-Ashbury · raspy

Missouri

Ozarks

Midwestern highland region

  • Route 66Historic cross-country highway
  • tornadoViolent rotating windstorm
  • 2011Calendar designation, twenty-tens

devastation · recovery · lead mining · zinc · Bonnie and Clyde · hideout · Carthage · tristate · Mercy Hospital · St. John's

tornado

2011

Calendar designation, twenty-tens

Mercy Hospital · St. John's · fatalities · recovery · rebuilding · memorial · FEMA · emergency response · storm shelter · warning

Categories
Opposites
musical style and era

JoplinPat Boone

electronic music · Perry Como · hip-hop · punk rock · heavy metal

vocal approach and persona

JoplinKaren Carpenter

Doris Day · Julie Andrews · Pat Boone · Perry Como · Enya

lifestyle and cultural symbolism

JoplinPat Nixon

Pat Boone · Billy Graham · squares · establishment · temperance

Phrases
Family

Janis Joplin

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G