Melancholic modalities : affect, Islam, and Turkish classical musicians / Denise Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Denise, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Turkey--History and criticism.

Music.

Turkey.

Melancholy in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 256 pages) : illustrations, music

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Typically Dismissed as the Remnants of Ottoman Nostalgia, the diverse melancholies intentionally cultivated by contemporary Turkish classical musicians is a central aspect of their socialization. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth study of the affective and sonic practices developed and sustained by professional musicians who teach and perform a present-day genre substantially rooted in the musics of the elite Ottoman court and Mevlevi Sufi lodges. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, author Denise Gill analyzes how melancholic music-making emerges as pleasurable, spiritually redeeming, and reparative. Focusing on the diverse practices of musicians who deploy and circulate melancholy in sound, Gill interrogates the constitutive elements of these musicians' affective modalities in the context of neoliberalism, secularism, political Islamism, public manifestations of Sunni Islamic piety in Istanbul, diverse Sufi devotionals, and the politics of psychological health in Turkey today. In an essential contribution to the study of ethnomusicology and to theories on sound and affect, Gill develops rhizomatic analyses to allow for musicians' multiple interpretations and experiences to be heard. With her innovative concept of "bi-aurality," Melancholic Modalities forges new possibilities for the historical and ethnographic analyses of musics, affective practices, and ideologies of listening for music scholars. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Melancholic State of Turkish Classical Music 26

Reforms as Roots 33

Cultural Policies and the Politics of Naming 39

Ottoman Music and the Turkish Nation-State 43

"Shaping Ears and Hearts": Emergent Media Practices 46

Institutional Changes for Practices of Musical Transmission 48

Neoliberalism, Islamic Movements, and the Privileges of Privatization 52

Death of a Genre 57

2 Separation, the Sound of the Rhizomatic Ney, and Sacred Embodiment 61

Sufism as Separation 72

Hû as Sound 76

Hû as Instrument Technique 82

Hû as Sacred Embodiment 84

Hû as Istanbul 87

From Life to Death and Sound to Silence 89

3 Melancholic Genealogies: Rhizomatic Listening and Bi-Aurality in Practice 95

Learning Melancholy, Learning Love 100

Understanding Mesk 101

Learning from a Master 106

Learning with Notation 108

Becoming Your Lineage 112

Bi-Aurality and the Problem of Assumed Listening Geographies 114

Genealogy, Orientalism, and Orientations 118

Listening Like a Ney 121

Case Studies: Listening Rhizomatically to Mesk Lineages 123

Learning Music as the Practice of Melancholy 127

4 Boundaries of Embodiment in Sounded Melancholy 128

Rendering Melancholy Musical 132

Embodying Gender, Melancholy, and the Boundaries Between 140

The Body's Boundary: Melancholic Musicking and Tears 146

Sema and Sama' 149

Living with the Boundary 152

5 Melancholic Modes, Healing, and Reparation 154

Melancholy as Illness 157

Musical Modes as Music Therapy 159

Melancholy and Health between "East" and "West" 164

Iconic Melancholic Musicians: Neyzen Tevfik 167

Melancholic Musicking: "There is No Medicine" 173

Musicking as Food for the (Melancholic) Soul 177

Suffering as Remedy: What to Take Away from Melancholic Musicking 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780190495022

0190495022

Publisher Number:

99979106888

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.