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Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e (2011)
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Binns, A. (2011). Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e. In T. Shephard, & A. Leonard (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (120-126). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203629987

The word ukiyo-e comes from a combination of “Ukiyo” , which means “floating world,” and “e” , which means picture or image. So, ukiyo-e offer both a description of the world of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—in particular the pleasures, foods, daily life,... Read More about Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e.