Greenlaw, Lavinia,  1962- <br/><br/>
The importance of music to girls / 
Lavinia Greenlaw. 
 - 195 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> "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."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0571230288 9780571230280 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Greenlaw, Lavinia, 1962- --Childhood and youth.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music and youth<br/>Music and children<br/>Music and teenagers<br/>Music--Social aspects<br/>Authors, English--21st century--Biography<br/>Women authors, English--21st century--Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6057.R375  / A3 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4842