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

Alice Echols

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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.

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Pages:: pages

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Publisher:: Picador

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0805053948

ISBN13:: 9780805053944

kindle Asin:: B00BY5XRHS

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

Alice Echols

3.83/5 (2075 ratings)

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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:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Picador

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0805053948

ISBN13:: 9780805053944

kindle Asin:: B00BY5XRHS

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