{"id":1922,"date":"2026-07-02T12:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/?post_type=ao_book&#038;p=1922"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:22:47","slug":"the-culture-of-spontaneity-improvisation-and-the-arts-in-postwar-america","status":"publish","type":"ao_book","link":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/book\/the-culture-of-spontaneity-improvisation-and-the-arts-in-postwar-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America ( Daniel Belgrad)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, integrating such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead&#8217;s cosmology, and the antinuclear movement. Daniel Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying theme: spontaneous improvisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, integrating such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain College, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead&#8217;s cosmology, and the antinuclear movement. Daniel Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had one unifying theme: spontaneous improvisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"post_tag":[],"topic":[14,17],"class_list":["post-1922","ao_book","type-ao_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-ensayo","topic-english"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Culture_of_Spontaneity-Daniel_Belgrad-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Culture_of_Spontaneity-Daniel_Belgrad-189x300.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Culture_of_Spontaneity-Daniel_Belgrad.jpg","large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Culture_of_Spontaneity-Daniel_Belgrad.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Culture_of_Spontaneity-Daniel_Belgrad.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Culture_of_Spontaneity-Daniel_Belgrad.jpg"},"post_author":"","assigned_categories":"Essay, english","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ao_book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}