Overview
Argues that sound and musicality are central to the Waka poetic form
Studies male love and musical desire in premodern Japan
Models methods of studying historical sounds that were neither notated nor recorded
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
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.
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Defining Waka Musically
Book Subtitle: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan
Authors: Christopher Hepburn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36716-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36715-1Published: 31 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36716-8Published: 30 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 100
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Music, History of Japan, Asian Literature