Publisher's Synopsis
The Importance of Music to Girls tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into û getting drunk, falling in love, cutting our hair, wanting to change the world û 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 fatherÆs shoes as a child to discovering her parentsÆ records, buying her own, going to concerts and singing in the streets. The personal û her school reports and diary entries, and the girl behind them û 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 DivisionÆs Ian Curtis û this is a beautiful, razor-sharp remembrance of childhood and adolescence, filtered through the medium of music.
