Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator, broadcaster and post-punk musician. She has been dubbed The Punk Professor by the BBC, as she teaches courses on Punk, Reggae, David Bowie, Fela Kuti and Bob ...
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Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator, broadcaster and post-punk musician. She has been dubbed The Punk Professor by the BBC, as she teaches courses on Punk, Reggae, David Bowie, Fela Kuti and Bob Marley at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts. New York University’s Fales Library recently acquired her archive as the Vivien Goldman Punk and Reggae Collection. “Cherchez La Femme,” the musical she co-wrote with August Darnell of Kid Creole & the Coconuts, is being premiered in May, 2016 at the La Mama Theatre, L.E.S, N.Y.C. As Features Editor on SOUNDS, the 1970s punk rock weekly, she covered the Punk and Reggae scenes in London, Kingston and New York. Two of her five books are about Bob Marley, recently: The Book of Exodus: the Making and Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Album of the Century (Three Rivers Press/Random House). Her journalism appears in publications like the New York Times, OKPlayer.com and the UK Guardian and New Statesman and is widely anthologized; her early journalism is archived at www.rocksbackpages.com. She recently performed “dub readings” with the Berklee Marley Ensemble, Boston. “Resolutionary,” a compilation album of Goldman’s music from the post-punk era, including the Flying Lizards, is being re-issued by the French indie Staubgold Records.
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