Ways of the Hand – The Organization of Improvised Conduct - Softcover

Sudnow, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262691612 ISBN 13: 9780262691611

Publisher: MIT Press, 1993

Synopsis

This is David Sudnow's classic account of how his hands learned to improvise jazz on the piano. David Sudnow is the author of Passing On and editor of Studies in Social Interaction. Since writing this book, he has developed a piano training method based on its insights.

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Review:

With astonishing descriptive precision, the author compels the reader to think and feet along with him as his fingers progress toward intimacy with the keyboard. This is at once a work of minutely detailed phenomenology and a virtuoso performance of language in action. Psychology Today A dazzling and deeply probing study of the relationship between human consciousness and behavior. -- Jack Kroll Newsweek

About the Author:

David Sudnow is the author of Passing On, on the sociology of medical care; Talk's Body, on language and music; and Pilgrim in the Micro World, on the nature of the body-computer interface. Over the past two decades, he has developed a widely used piano teaching method on the basis of experiences first described in this book.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0262691612
• ISBN 13: 9780262691611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172