An ethnographer's account of his study of jazz-piano playing, which led to discoveries concerning the ways his hands learned about the keyboard and improvisation, sheds light on the nature and range of improvised conduct

Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct

Arts & Photography

Sudnow, David

Music

Harpercollins

Passing on: The Social Organization of Dying [Jun 01, 1967] Sudnow, David

Passing on: The Social Organization of Dying

PRENTICE/HALL

Explores the mysterious interconnections between mind and muscle as evidenced in the ways by which we make music (from note, to phrase, to larger form) and language (from letter, to word, to idea)

Talk's Body: A Meditation between Two Keyboards

Romance

Paranormal

Penguin??Books

A detailed account of the experience of learning to improvise on the piano.
Ways of the Hand tells the story of how David Sudnow learned to improvise jazz on the piano. Because he had been trained as an ethnographer and social psychologist, Sudnow was attentive to what he experienced in ways that other novice pianists are not. The result, first published in 1978 and now considered by many to be a classic, was arguably the finest and most detailed account of skill development ever published. Looking back after more than twenty years, Sudnow was struck by the extent to which he had allowed his academic background to shape the book's language. He realized that he could now do a much better job of describing his experiences in a way that would not require facility with formal social science and philosophical discourse. The result is a revised version of the book that carries the same intellectual energy as the original but is accessible to a much wider audience.

Ways of the Hand: A Rewritten Account

Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Mit Pr

A detailed account of the experience of learning to improvise on the piano. 
Ways of the Hand tells the story of how David Sudnow learned to improvise jazz on the piano. Because he had been trained as an ethnographer and social psychologist, Sudnow was attentive to what he experienced in ways that other novice pianists are not. The result, first published in 1978 and now considered by many to be a classic, was arguably the finest and most detailed account of skill development ever published. Looking back after more than twenty years, Sudnow was struck by the extent to which he had allowed his academic background to shape the book's language. He realized that he could now do a much better job of describing his experiences in a way that would not require facility with formal social science and philosophical discourse. The result is a revised version of the book that carries the same intellectual energy as the original but is accessible to a much wider audience.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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.

Ways of the Hand

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

Talk's body: A meditation between two keyboards

KNOPF

Pilgrim in the microworld

An exploration of the human mind and body's interaction with the computer in its most compelling form, the video game, focuses on the author's own obsessed immersion in a computer game and its possibilities

Pilgrim in the Microworld

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Harvard University Press

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Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct

Passing on: The Social Organization of Dying

Talk's Body: A Meditation between Two Keyboards

Ways of the Hand: A Rewritten Account

Ways of the Hand: A Rewritten Account

Ways of the Hand

Talk's body: A meditation between two keyboards

Pilgrim in the Microworld

Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct