Reading Back from Kyoka: Toward a Musi(e)cology of Medieval Space

Reading Back from Kyoka: Toward a Musi(e)cology of Medieval Space

David Bialock - Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California

Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 6511

Using the graphic writing of Izumi Kyoka as a starting point, Professor Bialock’s lecture will explore some of the connections between music, ritual, and geomorphic space in medieval Japan. If Heike can be viewed on one level as historical narrative, its musico-ritual basis may also disclose proto-ecological concerns that were tied to the real and perceived effects of human and natural calamities in a time of protracted war.

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