The importance of music to girls
By: Lavinia Greenlaw.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780571230280
Subjects: Greenlaw, Lavinia, -- 1962- -- Childhood and youth.; Music and children.; Women authors, English -- 21st century -- Biography.; Music and teenagers.; Authors, English -- 21st century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The Importance of Music to Girls tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into - getting drunk, falling in love, cutting our hair, wanting to change the world - as well as the darker side of the adolescent years: loneliness, bullying, getting arrested. From bubble-gum pop to classical piano to punk rock, music is at first the key to being a girl and then the means of escape from all that. It is a way to talk to boys and a way to do without them. Lavinia Greenlaw records the importance of music in her life, from dancing on her father's shoes as a child to discovering her parents' records, buying her own, going to concerts and singing in the streets. The personal - her school reports and diary entries, and the girl behind them - is everywhere touched by the music that compelled her generation. Fancying Donny Osmond and his shiny teeth, disco dancing in four-inch wedge heels, wanting to be Joy Division's Ian Curtis - this is a remembrance of childhood and adolescence, filtered through the medium of music.