Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw

Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw

"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. Greenlaw records the importance of music in her own 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 beautiful, razor-sharp remembrance of childhood and adolescence, filtered through the medium of music.

"'From bubble-gum pop to punk rock, music is at first the key to being a girl and then the means of escape from all that' Lavinia Greenlaw"

Lavinia Greenlaw was born in 1962. With a literary career boasting a multitude of awards, she most recently published Minsk (2003), a collection shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize among others. She lives in London and works as a freelance writer, critic and broadcaster.

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ISBN 13	9780571230280
ISBN 10	0571230288
Title	Importance of Music to Girls
Author	Lavinia Greenlaw
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2007-08-16
Number of pages	220
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