Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999). Urn:oclc:877238259 Republisher_date 20161223134320 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 686 Scandate 20161222033611 Scanner . Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender. For many, the undisputed queen of sex, drugs and rock n roll, Janis Joplin was. Having interviewed scores of Joplin’s intimates, rock critic and historian Echols (Daring to Be Bad, not reviewed) persuades us that the received image of Joplin as a wild, doomed, drunken howlermemorialized in several previous biographies and in the movie The Roseis wrong only in that it emphasizes. Written in a captivating novel-like style this is a deeply affecting biography of one of America's most talented, tormented and enduring stars.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:20:48.170486 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1146609 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1. Scars of Sweet Paradise also reflected my effort to more fully integrate the counterculture into the history of the sixties. There was a problem loading this section. A smart, sober reappraisal of Janis Joplin’s whirlwind life and the hippie moment. Moving from the electric ballrooms of San Francisco to the mud-soaked fields of Woodstock, Joplin's story is also a chronicle of the revolutions of the sixties - a generation's experiment with high-risk living and the exacting price they ultimately paid for this. Rent Scars of Sweet Paradise 1st edition (978-0805053944) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Alice Echols. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Drawing on hundreds of interviews Echols renders Joplin in all her complexity, revealing how this sweet-voiced girl from Texas recreated herself, first as a gravely-voiced bluesy folksinger, and then as rock n' roll's first female superstar.Įchols examines the roots of her musicianship and her efforts to probe the outer limits of life declaring herself the first white-black person and pursuing sex with men and women alike. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin at. The undisputed queen of sex, drugs and rock n' roll was also the voice of a generation who, when she overdosed on heroin at the age of twenty-seven in October 1970 became the posthumous icon of bad girl femininity for millions around the world.

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