Music Maps Podcast

119 - Yoko Ono & the Avante-Garde Diaspora with Paul Morley

Music Maps Podcast

Show Notes

Join us & Paul Morley to hear all about Yoko Ono & the Avant-Garde Diaspora.

We hear about her early years in Tokyo, born into an almost aristocratic background via her banker father, before her eventual relocation to New York to enter the art world.

Once in New York Yoko goes on to create numerous significant works of art including Cut Piece & Grapefruit before meeting John Lennon in late 1966.

Paul also gives us an overview of the avant-garde world prior to Yoko Ono, including The Incoherents, Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus & John Cage.

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