Defining Waka Musically

Zusatztext

<p>This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of <i>waka </i>on the theme of <i>male love</i> in Kitamura Kigin¿s <i>Iwatsutsuji</i> (1676) and Ihara Saikaku¿s <i>Nanshoku ¿kagami</i> (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 <i>waka</i> in question. In all, this study guides the reader through five <i>waka</i> on the theme of <i>male love</i> and demonstrates not only how each <i>waka </i>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. </p>

Autorenportrait

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

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