Electronic Dreamers – EDM & its Roots really is a unique opportunity for all sorts of people who have always wanted to take a music course at NYU’s top-rated Clive Davis Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, and love dance musics like disco, dub, house, 80s synthpop  and dubstep. If you’re from out of town, even if you are not a student anywhere,  and want to experience summer in NY and study something hip, fascinating and relevant, sign up for this course. If you’re a student, from NYU or from any university anywhere round the world, you can get extra credits fast  to be applied to your own institution. Are you an EDM lover who wants to know the richness of their music; or a DJ, artist or producer who wants to be inspired by the breadth of sounds that came before? Aspiring music writer?  All of you – THIS IS YOUR COURSE! The story of Electronic Dreamers – EDM & its Roots
— represents the arc of music/youth culture and society since before the dawn of Dub! For More info call 212-998-1500

Professor Vivien Goldman has taught at  the Clive Davis Institute
since 2006. She has also initiated and taught courses  on Punk, Bob
Marley, Reggae and Dub and  right now, is teaching about Fela Kuti,
the legendary Nigerian activist creator of the Afrobeat sound,
currently being celebrated in the “Fela! Musical”. A Londoner, she is
known as a writer, broadcaster post-punk musician, and author of five
books, including two on Bob Marley (“The Book of Exodus,” Three Rivers
Press/Random House,) 

Goldman brings a unique perspective to this  course. A founding
member of prototypical synth-pop new wave combo, The Flying Lizards,
and dubmaster Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound Possee, Goldman has
co-written tracks for artists including Massive Attack, Coldcut,
Berlin uber-producer Moritz von Oswald, Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic
Orchestra) and Luscious Jackson’s Jill Cunniff, and is part of the
infamous European Chicks on Speed art/music collective. Her solo 45,
Launderette, co-produced with PiL’s John Lydon, is frequently
re-issued on compilations like “Anti NY” and “Disco! Not Disco,” and
was sampled by MadLib as”Filthy,” on his “Beat Konducta” series.