The Importance of Music to Girls
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312428375 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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For the misfits, there will always be music. The Importance of Music to Girls recalls the adventures that music makes possible: sneaking out, falling in love, cutting our hair off, terrifying our parents, and challenging the world. In this passionate, poetic memoir, Lavinia Greenlaw searches out diaries, LP covers, and old mix tapes to recall the torment and ecstasy of coming alive through music. As the sound track to basement parties, late-night drives, and solitary rituals of self-pity, the right music gives context and momentum to the bewildering process of growing up. Greenlaw's memoir reminds us how powerfully music has influenced the growth of our minds, and how inspiring the right song can be.
Wasn't what I expected Asiah Thomas It was really good,it just took me longer to get into it than I expected. Overall it was a good book.. S. G. Lake said An Interesting Read, Good Inspiration. This is an interesting little book,a quick read, and it will inspire youto explore your own life through themusic you've known throughout your life.. F*** art, let's dance. T. A. Parker The Importance of Music to Girls, by Lavinia Greenlaw is a memoir not so much of childhood and adolescence, but of her developing relationship with music in 1970s Britain.There are plenty of reviews out there, and they're generally mixed. The Importance of Music to Girls made Salon.com's Summer Reads; but was skewered in London's The Independent. My reflections do not diverge much from this farraginous example. I had a dickens of a time maintaining my interest at the outset of the memoir. I'm not sure if that's entirely Greenlaw's fault or
She lives in London and is a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia.. She was once in a band. LAVINIA GREENLAW is a novelist and poet
(May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Greenlaw's coming-of-age story is smartly and tenderly told, likely to snag readers like an infectiously catchy tune. As she matures, she swears her allegiance to the latter, moving en masse with primping and dancing girlfriends. All rights reserved. In her first memoir, British novelist and poet Greenlaw (Mary George of Allnorthover) tells of coming to know the world and her place in it through her love of music. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The story begins as she first awakens to her inchoate senses, a tiny child waltzing with her father, lulled by her mother's singing and clamoring amid the boisterous play of her three siblings and the entire family's constant chatter. Growing up in the late 1960s and '70s, she's captivated by her transistor radio and the shifts in pop culture that it heralds, from hippie music to glam rock to