Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound:
Embodied Cognition in West African
and African-American Musics

 

by

Vijay S. Iyer

 

B.S. (Yale University) 1992
M.A. (University of California, Berkeley) 1994

 

A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the

requirements for the degree of

Doctor of Philosophy

in

Technology and the Arts

in the

GRADUATE DIVISION

of the

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

 

Committee in charge:

Professor David Wessel, Chair
Professor Olly Wilson
Professor Ervin Hafter
Professor George Lewis
Professor Donald Glaser

Fall 1998

 

Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound:
Embodied Cognition in West African
and African-American Musics

 

© 1998

by

Vijay S. Iyer