Ways of the Hand - Softcover

Sudnow, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262691612 ISBN 13: 9780262691611

Publisher: Mit Pr, 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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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.

From Library Journal:

Sudnow is a trained ethnographer and social psychologist who gave up teaching in his fields to study piano and write exclusively about music. In 1978, he published the first edition of this work, a skill-development classic that documents how he taught himself to play jazz piano. The premise of that edition, as well as this update, is that the author's hands, apart from his conscious direction, learned to improvise jazz: "I sing with my fingers, so to speak, and only so to speak, for there's a new being, my body, and it is this being (here too, so to speak) that sings." This new version represents Sudnow's attempt to reach a broader, less academic audience with his findings. Although it features less scholarly diction, the text is still painstakingly detailed, which will limit the book's appeal. For academic and larger public libraries. Cleo Pappas, Lisle Lib. Dist., IL
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0262691612
• ISBN 13: 9780262691611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 171