TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenlaw,Lavinia
TI  - The importance of music to girls
SN  - 0571230288
AV  - PR6057.R375 A3 2007
U1  - 306.4842 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Greenlaw, Lavinia,
KW  - Music and youth
KW  - Music and children
KW  - Music and teenagers
KW  - Music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women authors, English
N2  - "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
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