Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

Echols, Alice

ISBN 10: 0805053948 / ISBN 13: 9780805053944

Verlag: Henry Holt and Company, 2000

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0805053948-4-27846531

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Alice Echols, author of Daring to Be Bad ("fascinating"--The Nation), is a leading historian of the sixties. She has taught at UCLA and USC and has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, and the L.A. Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Titel: Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times ...
Verlag: Henry Holt and Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair