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Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe : Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz
Vivien Goldman - Book - by Vivien Goldman
(2024)
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.
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