Title: The Importance of Music to Girls
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Authors, English, Biography, Childhood and youth, English Authors, English Women authors, Music and children, Music and teenagers, Women authors, English, Personal Memoirs, Knowledge, Music, Women authors, Authors, biography
People: Lavinia Greenlaw (1962-)
Time periods: 21st century
LC classification: PR6057.R375 I67 2007