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

Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club...
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Author: Alice Echols
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Echols, Alice

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

Dhs. 136.56

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

Dhs. 136.56
Author: Alice Echols
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Alice Echols
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/15/2000
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780805053944

About the Author

Alice Echols is a historian and cultural critic. She has taught at UCLA, USC, and Occidental College and has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, and L.A. Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.


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