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Defining Waka Musically - Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan

English · Hardback

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This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku's Nanshoku kagami (1687) by using a modified generative theory of music. This modified theory seeks to get at the interdependent meanings that may exist among the music, image, and the text of the waka in question. In all, this study guides the reader through five waka on the theme of male love and demonstrates not only how each waka is inherently musical but how the image and text may interdependently relate to the ways in which premodern Japanese song poets may not only have thought in and with sound but may have also utilized a diverse array of musical gestures to construct new objects of knowledge. In the case of this study, these new objects of knowledge seem to have aided in situating a changing musicopoetics that aligned with changing constructions of male desire. 

List of contents

1: Cursed Questions, or An Introduction to Defining Waka Musically.- 2: Foreplay, or On Defining Waka Musically.- 3: Fluid Mechanics, or On Interpreting Waka Musically.- 4: Liquid Love, or Five Premodern Japanese Songs of Male Love.- 5: Dissolve, or On Revisiting Defining Waka Musically.

About the author










Christopher Hepburn, PhD, FRSA, is a musicologist, writer, educator, and critic. He is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow in the Van Hunnick Department of History and the East Asian and Music Libraries at the University of Southern California.


Product details

Authors Christopher Hepburn
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.10.2023
 
EAN 9783031367151
ISBN 978-3-0-3136715-1
No. of pages 100
Dimensions 148 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XXIII, 100 p. 12 illus.
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous

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