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-makin...

• List of Figures
• List of Examples
• Acknowledgements
• Conventions
• Preface
• Introduction
• Melancholic Modalities
• Rhizome One: "Turkish Classical Music"
• Rhizome Two: Repertoires of Melancholies
• Rhizome Three: The Practice of Affect
• Rhizome Four: The Islamic Roots of Musicians' Melancholic Routes
• Following the Rhizomes of Melancholic Modalities
• Chapter One - The Melancholic State of Turkish Classical Music
• Reforms as Roots
• Cultural Policies and the Politics of ...