Defining Waka Musically
Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan
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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 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.
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.
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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Christopher Hepburn
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Premodern Japan Japanese music Ethnomusicology Waka Japanese Poetry Masculinity Sexuality
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“Ethnomusicologist Christopher Hepburn conducts an unprecedented aural-musical analysis of /waka/ to reveal the changing manners and mores of /male love/ from antiquity to the premodern era of Japan. A pathbreaking exploration of the musicopoetics of classical Japanese sound art, /Defining Waka Musically/ not only underscores the profound historicity of gender and sexuality, but moreover makes a powerful case for expanding our understanding of premodern Japan through a rigorous new blend of musical, historical, literary, and sociolinguistic approaches.” (Ann Marie Davis, The Ohio State University)
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