The Ships of my Heart are Sailing over Thirsty Water – Nursery Songs of Mesopotamian Arabs

A treatise on the genre of lullabies in general, including other types of cradle songs and songs for little children up to 2 years of age.
With a compilation of 154 genuine songs, lullabies etc. sung by the Mesopotamian Arab mother to her little child, complete with the data on the places of origin.
The texts are presented in the original (both Arabic script and scientific transliteration) and translation to the Serbian language, rendered from different spoken dialects of Iraqi Arabic.
Appendix: Musical notes of 12 most typical songs.
Appendix: Glossary of dialectal words found in the corpus of songs.
Appendix: Index of the songs.
Bibliography of relevant works in Serbian language, main Europian languages and in Arabic.
Summary in English.
Pages: 190
Službeni glasnik, Beograd 2017.

ISBN: 978-86-519-2157-8

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