{"title":"Vivien Goldman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVivien Goldman\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the intersections of music, culture, and politics. Her works delve deeply into the spirit of rebellion and artistic expression, capturing the essence of countercultural movements through vivid storytelling and keen analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly textured narratives that illuminate the role of music as both a social force and a form of personal identity. With a focus on \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, her books invite reflection on how sound shapes and reflects societal change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rebel-musix-scribe-on-a-vibe-by-vivien-goldman-9781399601740","title":"Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe\u003c\/em\u003e collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards, spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding flame to scorch our musical earth and clear it for new genres, like post-punk and hip-hop. One of only a handful of women writing in the Golden Age of music journalism, Vivien was the first, most elegant and passionate chronicler of reggae, funk, free jazz and Afrobeat; a pioneer when music was a wild frontier business, lawless and exhilarating, with new epiphanies emerging as the counterculture mutated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheer breadth of pieces here is overwhelming, from early encounters with Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt and Can; to rebels like Britain's first she-punks, The Raincoats and The Slits; covering British groups like the Sex Pistols, The Clash and Aswad; America's Public Enemy, Curtis Mayfield and George Clinton; and Jamaica's Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Dennis Brown. They rub up against contemporary profiles of New York's downtown royalty (Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Richard Hell), alongside legendary interviews with Vivien's friends Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman and Bob Marley, who reigns over this collection like a benign and timeless deity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVivien single-handedly changed the course of music writing and this collection reshapes some of her major pieces into a new narrative of the principal radical artists of the late twentieth century, in the process reaffirming that her reputation as 'The Punk Professor' will live on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432087699692,"sku":"9781399601740","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399601740.jpg?v=1774556845"},{"product_id":"rebel-musix-scribe-on-a-vibe-by-vivien-goldman-9781399601757","title":"Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssential reading: the making of history as it was happening. Vivien was there' JARVIS COCKER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVivien Goldman was the first, most passionate and indubitably the most elegant chronicler of reggae, funk, free jazz and Afrobeat music: a pioneering female writer who shaped the Golden Age of music journalism in her image. \u003cem\u003eRebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe\u003c\/em\u003e collects Goldman's extraordinary output from 1975 onwards and features encounters with everyone from Brian Eno to the Sex Pistols, Patti Smith to Fela Kuti, Curtis Mayfield to Can - and of course, her good friend Bob Marley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is both an unrivalled window onto late twentieth-century counterculture and the indispensable chronicle of a legendary 'Punk Professor' who single-handedly changed the course of music writing forever. No music fan should be without it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932403548396,"sku":"9781399601757","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399601757-rebel-musix-scribe-on-a-vibe.jpg?v=1783862017"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/vivien-goldman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}