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Scars of Sweet Paradise

By Alice Echols

Scars of Sweet Paradise Contemporary literature

Scars of Sweet Paradise

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
458
Release Date:
2000-02-15
Publication Date:
2000-09-05
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0805053948
ISBN13:
9780805053944
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
641 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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