The importance of music to girls - 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 life, from dancing on her fathers 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 Divisions Ian Curtis
this is a beautiful, razor-sharp remembrance of childhood and adolescence, filtered through the medium of music.