The magic years : scenes from a rock-and-roll life

The Resource The magic years : scenes from a rock-and-roll life

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The magic years : scenes from a rock-and-roll life

Title remainder

scenes from a rock-and-roll life

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Jonathan Taplin

Language

eng

Summary

Jonathan Taplin's extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band in the 60s, producer of major films in the 70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the 80s, creator of the Internet's first Video-on-Demand service in the 90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. His is a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable instincts-from the folk scene of Woodstock, to Hollywood's rebellious film movement and beyond, Taplin is not just a witness but a lifelong producer, the right-hand man to some of the greatest talents of both pop culture and the underground. With cameos by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Martin Scorsese, and countless other icons, The Magic Years is both a rock memoir and a work of cultural criticism from a key player who watched a nation turn from idealism to nihilism. Taplin offers a clear-eyed roadmap of how we got here and makes a convincing case for art's power to deliver us from "passionless detachment" and rekindle our humanism

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Midwest

Dewey number

781.66092
B

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries

Target audience

adult

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