The Culture of Spontaneity
Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America

351 pages
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8 color plates, 30 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 1998
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1: The Collective Unconscious
1: The Emergence of an Avant-Garde
2: The Avant-Garde and the American Indian
3: Ideogram
Pt. 2: The Energy Field
4: Subjectivity, Existentialism, and Plastic Dialogue
5: Subjectivity in the Energy Field: The Influence of Alfred North Whitehead
6: Gestalt
7: The Body in Plastic Dialogue: Dance and Ceramics
Pt. 3: Spontaneous Bop Prosody
8: Bebop
9: The Beats
10: Battling the Social Neurosis
Conclusion Into the Sixties
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Credits
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1: The Collective Unconscious
1: The Emergence of an Avant-Garde
2: The Avant-Garde and the American Indian
3: Ideogram
Pt. 2: The Energy Field
4: Subjectivity, Existentialism, and Plastic Dialogue
5: Subjectivity in the Energy Field: The Influence of Alfred North Whitehead
6: Gestalt
7: The Body in Plastic Dialogue: Dance and Ceramics
Pt. 3: Spontaneous Bop Prosody
8: Bebop
9: The Beats
10: Battling the Social Neurosis
Conclusion Into the Sixties
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Credits
Index
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