Ono’s career crossed from avant-garde loft scene to mass counterculture.

Evidence

Few commented on the excellence of her accompaniment—Lennon’s guitar, the rhythm bass played by Klaus Voorman, a friend of the Beatles since their Hamburg days, and particularly the perfection of Ringo’s rock ‘n’ roll beat. Lester Bangs’s knowledgeable take in Rolling Stone was the exception. “Give it a try,” he advised readers. “There’s something happening here.” There was: the LP represented the culmination of Ono’s long and winding road from John Cage’s class to Chambers Street loft concerts through Fluxus notoriety to counterculture stardom. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1646

Categorization

• XREF: Traces the exact bridge from Cage/Fluxus avant-garde to counterculture marketplace — directly useful to the reader’s two-part Subcultures → Countercultures model of how a scene becomes a market.