Ebook {Epub PDF} Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols

On stage, as Alice Echols writes in ''Scars of Sweet Paradise,'' she stood in sharp contrast to folksy peers like Joan Baez and Judy Collins. By all accounts, Joplin behaved as no white woman had. bltadwin.ru: Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin () by ECHOLS, ALICE and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at /5(K). 'Scars of Sweet Paradise' is an insightful and in-depth look at the life of Janis Joplin. As the title suggests, this looks at the life AND the times of Joplin and focuses very much on the era she lived in and what may have influenced bltadwin.ru by:

A smart, sober reappraisal of Janis Joplin's whirlwind life and the hippie moment. 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 howler—memorialized in several previous biographies and in the movie The Rose—is wrong only in that it emphasizes. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin Alice Echols, Author Metropolitan Books $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. Scars of Sweet Paradise The Life and Times of Janis Joplin. Alice Echols. • 4 Ratings 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.

Summary. To call Janis Joplin the Judy Garland of the Woodstock set is in some sense a fair characterization. The brassy, carnal, extravagant, and ultimately pitiable queen of psychedelic rock is indeed a cultural icon. And while Joplin reveled in her own ballsy, boozy legend, its needy, inebriated, real-life equivalent was a shadow that darkened her short life and, in the decades since her drug-induced death, has come to eclipse the party-girl persona. 'Scars of Sweet Paradise' is an insightful and in-depth look at the life of Janis Joplin. As the title suggests, this looks at the life AND the times of Joplin and focuses very much on the era she lived in and what may have influenced her. Alice Echols Scars of Sweet Paradise: the life and times of Janis Joplin. in: Book Review. (Virago. £ in hardback) Written 30 years after her death, and by someone who did not know Janis Joplin personally, this is a biography with a degree of objectivity. Nevertheless, Alice Echols’ authoritative book gives a sense of being close to its subject, perhaps because her main sources are many interviews with old friends and acquaintances of Janis, plus, of course, extensive reading.