TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hepburn,Christopher
TI  - Defining Waka Musically: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan 
SN  - 9783031367168
U1  - 780.9 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Oriental literature
KW  - History of Music
KW  - History of Japan
KW  - Asian Literature
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 ōkagami (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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36716-8
ER  -