Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz - Couverture rigide

Goldman, Vivien

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1399601741 ISBN 13 : 9781399601740

Editeur : White Rabbit, 2024

Synopsis

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe 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.

The 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.

Vivien 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vivien Goldman is a British writer, musician, broadcaster and educator. She has published seven books and was one of the first writers to champion artists like Bob Marley and Fela Kuti. Now she teaches about them and other Rebel Musix as a long-serving New York University Professor.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The best writing from Vivien Goldman, the trailblazing, radical, feminist music writer

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Rabbit
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399601741
• ISBN 13: 9781399601740
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas