The Musical Vocation of Yoko Ono

Published on September 16, 2026

Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 12 – 1 p.m.

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Brigid Cohen is a historical musicologist who teaches at New York University and specializes in the history of music and migration, with related focuses on war, imperialism, archive studies, avant-garde communities, and intersections of music in the wider arts. At Radcliffe, she will write her third book, which is both a monograph on Yoko Ono and a new history of music, philosophy, and politics of the last 80 years.

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Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture, Music
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Speaker(s): 2026–2027 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow Brigid Cohen
Cost: Free
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Contact Info: [email protected]
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