Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

by Echols, Alice
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ISBN: 9780805053944
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Overview

Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot mama of her own invention-as well as the familiar portrait of the screwed-up star victimized by the era she symbolized, to examine the roots of Joplin's muscianship and explore a generation's experiment with high-risk living and the terrible price it exacted.

A deeply affecting biography of one of America's most brilliant and tormented stars, Scars of Sweet Paradise is also a vivid and incisive cultural history of an era that changed the world for us all.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Echols, Alice
  • ISBN: 9780805053944
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 1.30
  • Number Of Pages: 464
  • Publication Year: 2000

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