Title Defining Waka musically : songs of male love in premodern Japan / Christopher Hepburn

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 100 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave pivot Palgrave pivot. 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 Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 11, 2023) Subject Waka -- History and criticism Songs, Japanese -- History and criticism Japanese poetry -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism Love in literature. Men in literature. Gay men's writings, Japanese. Gay men's writings, Japanese. Japanese poetry -- Edo period. Love in literature. Men in literature. Songs, Japanese. Waka. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031367168 3031367162

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