Böcker av Alice Echols

* The definitive biography of Janis Joplin - rock's first female superstar, the queen of sex, drugs and rock n' roll whose music expressed the recklessness, defiance and energy of her generation

Upending many of our assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, this text particularly focuses on the notion that the '60s represented a total rupture and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change. The essays map an alternative history of American culture from the '50s to the '90s.