Vivien Goldman in brief:

Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator and broadcaster and cult post-punk musician. A Londoner, Goldman has lived in Paris and now resides in New York.

A widely published and anthologized journalist, Goldman's fifth book is "The Book of Exodus: the Making and Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Album of the Century" (Three Rivers Press) described as "vivid and intimate" by Rolling Stone. Her previous books are Marley's first biography, "Soul Rebel Natural Mystic" (with photographer Adrian Boot); 'The Black Chord," (with photographer David Corio,) tracing the flow of music through the African Diaspora; and "Pearl's Delicious Jamaican Dishes" a Jamaican cookbook she co-authored with Pearl Bell, the chef of Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell.

Stroll through this site and find many articles by/about Goldman. My Media include the New York Times, Fast Company, the UK Guardian and New Statesman and more...

She is the Adjunct Professor of Punk and Reggae at NYU Tisch School's Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music. Her multi-media lectures have been presented at venues including Columbia University, St. George's University, onstage at Hamburg's Kampnagel Theatre and at the Museum of Modern Art in Leon, Spain.

Goldman's music is often re-issued. Try 'Anti-NY' on which she appears alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat; 'Disco Not Disco'; Chicks On Speed's 'Girl Monster' featuring Goldman's "lover's ragga" take on Craig David's "Seven Days"; and 'Wild Dub', alternative dub from The Clash and Grace Jones. Her work with The Flying Lizards has been re-issued in Japan. All of the above are available on I-Tunes (hopefully!)

You know where to find me....





Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Rammelzee R.I.P. Fast Company

This link leads you to my Fast Company piece on the late hiphop artist/visionary RAMMELZEE... thanks to Fab 5 Freddy for the insights...
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Paul D. Brazill said...

Just discovered this. Top writer. I was recently talking about your Kide Creole book. What a hoot that is! I'll be hanging around.

September 2, 2010 10:01 AM

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An Interview with Billy Bragg

It's not bragging to say me and, Billy B, the Bard of Barking (that's a place in Essex! Billy's not barking mad!), go way back. When we got together at Vazacs in the East Village to chat about his seriously strong new record, "Mr. Love and Justice," and his book, "The Progressive Patriot," the conversation was so heartfelt we decided to bring it to you in four parts. Welcome to Part One. Having not seen each other for yonks, of course Billy and I had to talk about the past. But mainly, we focused on now and the future. In the First Punk Wave, Billy was the sort of man-of-the-people muso who'd drop by the office when I worked on the rock weekly, New Musical Express. Any time there was a front line cultural happening, like for Rock Against Racism, Billy would be there -- one man and his guitar singing of how things really are and how they could be, in the spirit of folk hero Woody Guthrie (whose lyrics he set to music.) Billy's commitment to helping change our society has only grown stronger over his twenty-something year career -- as has his command of music. If his solo singer/songwriter stuff cut through hypocrisy like a knife, the new, almost orchestrated material drops a bomb on the bad in our world -- and hands bouquets to the bright and bold. So there was much to discuss when we met on a brisk but sunny morning, including what the record's name really means, fatherhood, the work he's doing to bring music into prisons, and who William Bloke would vote for if he was a Yank.



Billy Bragg Interview: Part 1
The Punk Professor sits down with Billy Bragg in the first of an exclusive two-part interview.


Billy Bragg Interview: Part 2
The Punk Professor sits down with Billy Bragg in the second of an exclusive two-part interview.


You can also meet up with me again soon for a big ol' reasoning with Mick Jones and Tony James of Carbon/Silicon, who've been lurking in the swamps of punk since they were in The Clash and Generation X respectively. And if you want to join the conversation -- hey, you know where to write.