Melancholic Modalities : Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians.

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the practices socialized by musicians who enthusiastically teach and perform a present-day genre substantially rooted in the musics of the Ottoman court and elite Mevlevi Sufi lodges. Author Denise Gill analyzes how melancholic music-making emerges as pleasurable, spiritually redeeming, and healing for both the listener and performer.

288 p.; 24 cm.
Paper
Language: English
ISBN: 0190495014
ISBN13: 9780190495015
UPC: 9780190495015