num_pages: 464
description: 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.
language: English
title: Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
titlecomplete: Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
characters: Kenneth Threadgill, Otis Redding, Tina Turner, Jae Whitaker, Ken Kesey, Chet Helms, Linda Gottfried Waldron, Dick Cavett, Seth Morgan, Powell St. John, Joe Namath, Bill Graham, Dave Moriarty, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Janis Joplin
genres: 20th Century, History, Queer, Feminism, Womens, Biography, Memoir, Music, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2311
places: Austin, Texas, California, Monterey, California, San Francisco, California, Port Arthur, Texas, Texas
publisher: Picador