The Reggae Studies Unit of the University of the West Indies, Mona will host the Annual Bob Marley Lecture on Tuesday, February 5, at the Undercroft of the Senate Building. The lecture, The Full Has Never Been Told: Exploring Dancehall's Moral Conscience, will be delivered by Dr Donna Hope. Vivien Goldmans The Book of Exodus: The Making and meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century will also be launched. The double-bill programme begins at 6:00 pm.

Vivien Goldman is an adjunct professor of punk and reggae at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. She has devoted much of her multi-faceted career to Afro-Caribbean and global music. The Book of Exodus is her fifth book. Starting out in record companies as the PR who helped break Bob Marley, Goldman soon switched to journalism and wrote his first biography, Soul Rebel, Natural Mystic. As features editor of Sounds, the London music weekly, she championed punk and worked with the Clash, Sex Pistols, Slits and Raincoats.

Goldman's work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Interview, Spin and Rolling Stone. Her writing is widely anthologised. A pioneer of world music, she conceived of and co-produced the groundbreaking 80's TV music series, Big World Cafe, and has made several documentaries and videos for artistes including Hugh Masekela, and Eric B and Rakim. Goldman is guest lecturer for Barnard's Forum on Migration, and curates their series of trans-cultural musical events. As a songwriter, she has worked with artistes like Massive Attack, Cold Cut and Ryuichi Sakamoto. An original Flying Lizard (the 80's new wave combo), she co-produced her solo single Launderette with John Lydon, which she released independently and distributed through Rough Trade. It has recently been re-issued. Born in London, Goldman now resides in New York City.

Dr Donna P Hope is a lecturer in Reggae Studies at the Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI, Mona. She earned a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, supported by a Fulbright scholarship. Dr Hope holds a Masters of Philosophy in Government and a Bachelors of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of the West Indies, Mona.

She has shared her work on Jamaican dancehall culture in local, regional and international settings in the print and electronic media. Her first book, Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica, was published by the UWI Press in 2006. Other publications include articles on gender and sexuality in Jamaican popular culture. Dr Hope's research interests encompass Jamaican music and dancehall culture, youth development, black masculinities, black popular culture, gender, identity, and power. She is currently completing her second book, Man Vibes: Discourses of Masculinity in Jamaican Dancehall Culture.
Dr Hope is a committed public intellectual who hosts the daytime radio talk show, Disclosure, on Hot 102 FM.

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