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Vivien Goldman began her career as a journalist for Cassettes and Cartridges. She then became a PR officer for Atlantic Records and then Island Records, where she worked with Bob Marley. She was a writer and editor for London-based Sounds magazine in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s she began making documentaries for Channel Four television, developing and producing the world-music show Big World Cafe. Vivien Goldman has made a career in punk rock, doing everything from music to journalism.
Vivien wrote for the music magazines NME, Sounds and Melody Maker about reggae, punk and post-punk. She was a member of The Flying Lizards, shared a flat with fellow NME journalist and The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde.
Goldman's book, Revenge of the She-Punks, was released in 2019 and documents women's involvement in the punk rock scene. She has written the biography for Kid Creole, as well as being featured in numerous music documentaries. Musically, she released the Dirty Washing EP in 1981, with tracks produced by John Lydon and Adrian Sherwood. She was a member of the band Flying Lizards.
Vivien is also a professor of punk and reggae at New York University's (NYU) Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She is also an adjunct professor of musical cultures and industry at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (Rutgers University.
Vivien spoke with us via her home in Jamaica, where she resides for part of the year.
www.viviengoldman.com