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Can I read Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin on EtoBox?
Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin by ECHOLS, ALICE is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin about?
The undisputed queen of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, 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 at the age of twenty-seven in October 1970, the dreams of her generation crashed and burned with her. Now Alice Echols pushes beyond the legendary Joplin - the red-hot mama of her own invention - and the equally familiar portrait of the screwed-up star victimized by the era she symbolized. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, Echols reveals how this sweet-voiced girl from Texas re-created herself, first as a gravelly-voiced bluesy folksinger, and then as rock 'n' roll's first female superstar. She examines the roots of Joplin's musicianship and her efforts, both onstage and off, to live on what she called "the outer limits of probability," drinking and carousing like one of the guys, declaring herself the first "white-black" person, and pursuing sex with men and women alike.
Who reads Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- ECHOLS, ALICE
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805053876
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (936 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14