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Introduction -- Part I. Modes of melancholy and excess -- 1. Modernity, melancholy and national identity in Yeşilçam melodramas -- 2. New melodramas, new melancholies -- 3. Shifting tastes and blurring habitus in arabesk music -- 4. Arabesk fusions and new debates -- Part II. Spaces of melancholy and displacement -- 5. Istanbul, Taşra and urban melancholy in film and music -- 6. Istanbul between the global and the rural -- 7. Melancholy and displacement in the diaspora -- 8. Between two cultures: double alienation, double belonging -- Conclusion

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