Vivien Goldman

Vivien Goldman is a London-born, New York-residing writer, broadcaster, educator and post-punk musician, with a long history of covering Jamaican culture. In the first wave of punk, she covered the scene in the US and UK, along with reggae in Jamaica. The author of five books, the most recent of her two Bob Marley works is The Book of Exodus: the Making & Meaning of Marley & the Wailers' Album of the Century (Three Rivers Press/Random House.) She is now an Adjunct Professor teaching courses on Reggae, Punk, Bob Marley, David Bowie and Feta Kuti at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. New York University's Fales Library has acquired her archive as The Vivien Goldman Punk and Reggae Collection. Cherchez La Femme, the musical she co-wrote with August Darnell, aka Kid Creole, was premiered by New York's La Mama Theatre in 2016. Resolutionary, a compilation of Goldman's post-punk music, (Staubgold) features her work with dubmaster Adrian Sherwood.