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DESCRIPTION:A discussion of Christopher Hepburn's new book\, Defining Waka 
 Musically: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan (Palgrave MacMillan\, 202
 3). The author will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Guest (Universit
 y of Oxford) and Stacey Jocoy (Library of Congress)\, moderated by Kerim Y
 asar (USC). Co-organized by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the Cent
 er for the Premodern World. Registration is required. REGISTER HERE\n\n \n
 \nAbout the Book: Defining Waka Musically considers how music\, musicality
 \, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific constructi
 on of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin’s Iwatsutsuji (16
 76) and Ihara Saikaku’s Nanshoku ōkagami (1687) by using a modified gen
 erative theory of music. This modified theory seeks to get at the interdep
 endent meanings that may exist among the music\, image\, and the text of t
 he waka in question. In all\, this study guides the reader through five wa
 ka on the theme of male love and demonstrates not only how each waka is in
 herently 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 g
 estures 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. \n
 \n \n\nAbout the Author: Christopher Hepburn 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 Librar
 ies at the University of Southern California.\n\n \n\nOpen to attendants o
 utside of USC. An excerpt of the book will be made available to registered
  attendants. Registration before the event is required. \n\n \n\nThis even
 t is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities' “Book Chats” seri
 es\, conversations about new books published by USC scholars in the humani
 ties and humanistic social sciences. To see more events in this series\, i
 ncluding recordings of past events\, visit https://dornsife.usc.edu/levan-
 institute/book-chats/.
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