Scars of Sweet Paradise The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

Name: Scars of Sweet Paradise The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
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ISBN: 9780805053944

ISBN-10: 0805053948

ISBN-13: 9780805053944

Edition: Revised

Authors: 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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 2/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Alice Echols, author of Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplinand Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America,has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, Newsday,and L.A. Weekly.



Introduction



The Great Nowhere



Magnetized into Music



On the Edges of America



The Beautiful People



Big Brotherized



Hope and Hype in Monterey



Bye, Bye Baby



Little Girl Blue



Trading Her Tomorrows


Epilogue


Where Are They Now?


Discography


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index