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"About Me:
I have a PhD in Sociology from Berkeley (1965). I wrote the first book on the care of the dying (Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying); I wrote the first detailed account of how human hands learn a piano keyboard (Ways of the Hand: Harvard University Press. I wrote the first study of the skills of video gaming (Pilgrim in the Micro World (Warner Books). I've received a Guggenheim Fellowship. My piano program was featured three times on NBC Today. I have the largest popular (jazz standards) piano course in the world (the Sudnow Method. www.sudnow.com)
Website: www.sudnow.com
Favorite Music:
Glenn Gould's Bach
Bartok's Fifth String Quartet
all of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea
most pre-romantic era music
nearly all classical music written in the 20th Century
Favorite TV Shows:
Rarely watch. When I do: Bill Maher, Charlie Rose, C Span, The News Hour".
Let's try to remember David for his contributions as reported in the following works:
Sudnow, David (1965) 'Normal crimes: sociological features of a penal code in a public defender's office', Social Problems 12: 255-76
Sudnow, David (1967) Passing on: the social organization of dying. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall
Sudnow, David (1972) 'Temporal parameters of interpersonal observation'. In: David Sudnow, ed. Studies in social interaction. New York: Free Press: 259-79
Sudnow, David, ed. (1972) Studies in social interaction. New York: Free Press
Sudnow, David (1978) Ways of the hand: the organization of improvised conduct. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Sudnow, David (1979) Talk's body: a meditation between two keyboards. New York: Knopf
Sudnow, David (1983) Pilgrim in a microworld. London: Heinemann
Sudnow, David (2001) Ways of the Hand: A Rewritten Account. Cambridge, Mass. M.I.T. Press