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Alice Echols

Alice Echols is a professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. A former disco deejay, she is the author of the acclaimed biography of Janis Joplin, Scars of Sweet Paradise. She lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.

Books by Alice Echols

  1. Book CoverHot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture


    "Remarkable. . . . Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject."—Christine Stansell, University of ChicagoMore