Scars of Sweet Paradise

Scars of Sweet Paradise
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 517
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ISBN-10 : 9781466839793
ISBN-13 : 1466839791
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Book Synopsis Scars of Sweet Paradise by : Alice Echols

Download or read book Scars of Sweet Paradise written by Alice Echols and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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