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