About this Event

Vivien Goldman has developed and taught courses on rebel musicians such as Nigerian Afrobeat activist Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, David Bowie and Punk at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music where she's earned the nom d'academe 'The Punk Professor'. Her writing appears in The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Statesman, Prospect and many other publications/sites. She is a frequent guest on BBC Radio 5's "Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo," covering New York life and the U.S. charts.



This October in the UK she will be presenting her one-woman "Punky Reggae Party Show", a 60 minute, immersive multi-media presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A "Reasoning," on the brief, glorious time of the UK movement dubbed The Punky Reggae Party by Bob Marley; and its meaning today, when so many people have given up on music as a form of communication and protest.



The narrative will come alive through her life spent in music and popular culture, including her collaborations and friendships with most of the major players of the UK punk and post-punk scene, reggae in UK & JA, nand the original hip-hop and rap scene in New York - and will be playing music/videos by artists like The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Bob Marley & the Wailers, PIL, Junior Murvin, Junior Delgado, Lee Perry, The Slits, the Raincoats, Aswad, and Steel Pulse.



Author of 'The Book of Marley's Exodus', Goldman was Bob Marley's trusted writer and hung out with him in Kingston and London, in the studio, on the road, and as a guest in his home, leaving right before the attempted assasination in his kitchen. She was still around when he recorded the epochal "Exodus" album in West London.