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Words & Music With Phil Galdston and Jonathan Taplin On May 6 NYU Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions in association with the Americana Music Association Foundation presents Words & Music with Phil Galdston on Thursday, May 6 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. His guest is music business professional, motion picture producer, cultural critic, intellectual property advocate, and author Jonathan Taplin. The event is free to the public. Click here to register for the event. Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave of the past ha...

Rolling Stone Jonathan Taplin Tour-Managed Rock Royalty. Now He’s Telling His Stories In a new memoir, Taplin recalls what it was like to watch Dylan go electric, George Harrison speed-drive, and Clapton and the Band wrestle with demons and drugs By John Scheele* Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, flew into Woodstock while working for the Band, helped coordinate George Harrison’s Concert for Ba...

MORE Jonathan Taplin, Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab makes opening remarks during the USC Annenberg "2013 Innovation Summit", in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Annenberg Innovation Lab. Jonathan Taplin may not be a household name, but he has been behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments in 20th century American music. As the description of Taplin’s latest book notes, the University of Southern California professor emeritus has made waves in every one of the past several decades: “he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and ...