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This dissertation is one of the first forays into the living and evolving world of child-directed song practices in metropolitan India. It is an inquiry into how individuals living in India's megacities of Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai sing to children, what these song practices me…

This dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of the Armenian lullaby in Turkey as a genre of intimacy, testimony, and protest. It traces the affective history accumulated on the lullaby that turns it into a resource for remembrance, story-telling, and the transmissio…