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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.
ASIN : B00BY5XRHS
Publisher : Metropolitan Books; 1st edition (February 15, 2000)
Publication date : February 15, 2000
Language : English
File size : 1399 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 433 pages
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