Bob Marley was the first international superstar from the
developing world Whose revolutionary message harmonized
pan-africanism and racial unity. As Marley’s longtime comrade and
two-time biographer and as a veteran reporter from the front lines
of social movements propelled by music, Vivien Goldman is committed
to raising awareness of how music and culture work as tools for
social change.
Vivien Goldman is a writer, broadcaster and professor — and cult
post-punk musician, who has devoted much of her work to chronicling
punk, jazz and Afro-Caribbean music and culture. She was described
in Le Monde as, “a woman of artistic dimensions and signifi cant
politics who helped evolve the New Wave.”
Throughout her career, Goldman has worked in various media —
print, TV, radio, new media — and prior to moving to America in
1990, Goldman was both producing and presenting TV in the UK.
She is the Adjunct Professor of Punk and Reggae at New York
University’s Tisch School’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded
Music and writes a bi-weekly column on BBCAmerica.com as The Punk
Professor. Her previous books also include Marley’s first
biography, Soul Rebel, Natural Mystic and The Black Chord, a
collaboration with photographer David Corio that chronicles the
flow of music through the African Diaspora. A Londoner, Goldman has
lived in Paris and now resides in New York.
Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and the
President’s
Multicultural Advisory Committee
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Date
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Time
7 p.m.
Location
University Center Commons, Queens campus