Visvanatha Iyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 203828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Visvanatha Iyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Visvanatha |
| FAMILY NAME | Iyer |
| SIGNATURE | IYER V |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2755-7330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beneath Improvisation
Improvisation has been construed as Western art music’s Other. This chapter urges music theorists to take the consequences of this configuration seriously. The decision to exclude improvisation as inherently unstable is not neutral, but is bound up with the endemic racism that has characterized social relations in the West and that is being brought to the fore in Black Lives Matter and other recent social and political movements. Traditional musi…
Improvising Digital Culture
I was sitting in on the previous panel, and I'd like to pick up from what Natasha Pravaz was speaking about. She referred to Richard Schechner, and he emphasizes the idea of performance and the performative moment capturing the subjunctive mood. Schechner is referring to the aspect of ritual or play that comes to be in performance. The subjunctive mood means that somehow there's a degree of fantasy involved [in the performance]. Schechner is spec…
Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music
The dual theories of embodied mind and situated cognition, in which physical/temporal embodiment and physical/social/cultural environment contribute crucially to the structure of mind, are brought to bear on issues in music perception. It is argued that cognitive universals grounded in human bodily experience are tempered by the cultural specificity that constructs the role of the body in musical performance. Special focus is given to microrhythm…
Musik fur Vina/Sudindien
Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music
The dual theories of embodied mind and situated cognition, in which physical/temporal embodiment and physical/social/cultural environment contribute crucially to the structure of mind, are brought to bear on issues in music perception. It is argued that cognitive universals grounded in human bodily experience are tempered by the cultural specificity that constructs the role of the body in musical performance. Special focus is given to microrhythm…
Musik fur Vina/Sudindien
Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music
The dual theories of embodied mind and situated cognition, in which physical/temporal embodiment and physical/social/cultural environment contribute crucially to the structure of mind, are brought to bear on issues in music perception. It is argued that cognitive universals grounded in human bodily experience are tempered by the cultural specificity that constructs the role of the body in musical performance. Special focus is given to microrhythm…
Improvising Digital Culture
I was sitting in on the previous panel, and I'd like to pick up from what Natasha Pravaz was speaking about. She referred to Richard Schechner, and he emphasizes the idea of performance and the performative moment capturing the subjunctive mood. Schechner is referring to the aspect of ritual or play that comes to be in performance. The subjunctive mood means that somehow there's a degree of fantasy involved [in the performance]. Schechner is spec…
Beneath Improvisation
Improvisation has been construed as Western art music’s Other. This chapter urges music theorists to take the consequences of this configuration seriously. The decision to exclude improvisation as inherently unstable is not neutral, but is bound up with the endemic racism that has characterized social relations in the West and that is being brought to the fore in Black Lives Matter and other recent social and political movements. Traditional musi…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Improvisation (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 works) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (1 works)