Defining Waka Musically Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan

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 theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hepburn, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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