Jagmo, born Nels Jacobson, is a US artist and

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historian born in

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in 1949. He moved to

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in 1978 and began creating rock posters in 1981. For three years during the early 1980s Jacobson served as bar manager and promotional director for Austin's

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. He has designed posters for live-music venues such as

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and

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, and for performers such as

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, the

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, Divine,

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Joe Ely Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll. He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo ...

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, the

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and

Jerry Jeff Walker Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country music and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He was best ...

. In 1987, Jacobson helped organize the Texas-U.S.S.R. Musicians' Exchange tour of the Soviet Union and accompanied the performers to

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and

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. He was

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for

South by Southwest South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in m ...

(

SXSW South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Te ...

) during its first six years, designing the original logo, and in 1998 founded the SXSW Continuing Legal Education program, which he continues to oversee in 2019. Jacobson has served on the packaging

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committees for the Texas and San Francisco chapters of the

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, and is a founding Director of the American Poster Institute and the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, and a board member of The Rock Poster Society (TRPS).

Selected writings

"Art Laws and Outlaws: Legal Issues in Music Graphics" from SXSW 2015 (course materials for Continuing Legal Education Program)
Art Laws and Outlaws
Introductory essay "Colorful Tales and Early Techniques" in ''Homegrown: Austin Music Posters, 1967 to 1982'' (Alan Schaefer, ed., University of Texas Press 2015) "Art of Rock and Roll" from the 24th Annual Entertainment Law Institute course book (TexasBarCLE and the Entertainment and Sports Law Section of the State Bar of Texas 2014) Introduction to chapter about Flatstock 4 in ''Rock Poster Show: Flatstock Volume One'' (Soundscreen Design 2010) “Rock Music Posters and the Law” from ''

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'' Volume 23/Number 1 (American Bar Association Spring 2005) http://www.jagmo.com/articles/Posters_Law.pdf ”Foreword,” with Dirk Fowler, to ''Swag 2: Rock Posters of the '90s and Beyond'' by Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz, (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2005) “Armadillos, Peccadillos, and the Maverick Posterists of Austin, Texas” from ''Prints and Printmakers of Texas: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual North American Print Conference'' (Ron Tyler ed., Texas State Historical Association 1997) “Faith, Hope & Parody: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, ‘Oh, Pretty Woman,’ and Parodists' Rights” from the ''Houston Law Review'' Volume 31/Number 3 (1994) "The Maverick Tradition: Postering in Austin, Texas, Part II" from ''OFFtheWALL'' Volume No. 1/Issue No. 3 (1992) http://www.jagmo.com/articles/index.html "The Maverick Tradition: Postering in Austin, Texas, Part I" from ''OFFtheWALL'' Volume No. 1/Issue No. 2 (1991) http://www.jagmo.com/articles/index.html “Austin Poster Art” from ''The Austin Chronicle'' Vol. III/No.23 (July 13, 1984) "The Request" (a poem) from ''Rolling Stone'' Issue No. 292 (May 31, 1979)

References

"Putting Images to Music: The Poster Design of Nels Jacobson" by Luke Torn from SXSWORLD (March 2017) "Legal Panels Celebrate 20 Years at SXSW" from SXSWORLD (March 2017) ''Homegrown: Austin Music Posters, 1967 to 1982'' (Alan Schaefer, ed., University of Texas Press 2015) ''Rock Poster Art'' by Didier Maiffredy (Groupe Eyrolles 2013) "Nels Jacobson (Jagmo): Music for Eyes" by Michalis Limnios for Blues.Gr (March 10, 2016
http://blues.gr
''A Fistful of Rock & Roll: Real Rock for Real Rock Bands'' by Sal Canzonieri (BGT ENT 2013) ''Rock Poster Show: Flatstock Volume One'' (Soundscreen Design 2010) ''Swag 2: Rock Posters of the '90s and Beyond'' by Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz, (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2005) ''Art of Modern Rock'' by Paul Grushkin and Dennis King (Chronicle Books 2004) “Art Rock: Nels ‘Jagmo’ Jacobson” by Patty Gopez for The Live Buzz (October 7, 2010) “Poster Art: Nels ‘Jagmo’ Jacobson's fortuitous relocation” by Liza Rush from ''Design Bureau'' by Alarm Press (June 23, 2010)
http://alarmpress.com
“60 Concert Posters from Ten Amazing Artists” by Robert Bowen from ''Smashing Magazine'' (September 28, 2008)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
“Concert Poster Art: Austin, Texas Style” by Rush Evans from ''Discoveries'' Issue 94 (March 1996) “A portrait of Austin’s past: Posters depict musical history since 1960s” by Pete Szilagyi from the ''Austin-American Statesman'' (July 4, 1992) “Tradition and Texas posters: ‘Jagmo’ fills the space between art, ads” by Don McLeese from the ''Austin-American Statesman'' (September 19, 1991) “Signs of the Times” by Jill Becker from ''Texas Monthly'' (June 1991) “Ten Days that Shook My World: Part II Kiev: On John Lennon’s Birthday” by Tom Chamberlain from ''Current: San Antonio’s Newsweekly'' (November 19–25, 1987) “Ten Days that Shook My World: Part I Leningrad: City that Peter the Great Built” by Tom Chamberlain from ''Current: San Antonio’s Newsweekly'' (November 12–18, 1987) “Local artists to act as ambassadors of good music” by Michael Point from the ''Austin-American Statesman'' (September 24, 1987) “An Artist Against Apartheid” by Greg Stephens from ''The Austin Chronicle'' (August 15, 1986)

External links

Jagmo.comBooks by Nels JacobsonSouth Austin Popular Culture CenterFlatstock during SXSW 2012 (video by Niama and Evelyn of Society HAE)
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