Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin
Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin By Echols, Alice; Joplin, Janis
2000 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0805053948 | EPUB | 1 MB
2000 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0805053948 | EPUB | 1 MB
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.