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n. A style of rural Cuban music.
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Guajira ( , meaning "country music" in Cuban Spanish) is a musical form which evokes a rural ambience in its texts, instrumentation and style.
In the years around 1900 a style of guajira emerged in association with Cuban music theater, especially as composed by Jorge Anckermann.
This genre had some similarity to the criolla and, to a lesser extent, the punto. It contains bucolic countryside lyrics, rhyming, similar to décima poetry. The music is a mixture of 3/4 and 6/8 rhythms. According to Sánchez de Fuentes, its first section is in a minor key, its second section in a major key.
In general, the songs in this repertoire are no longer well known in Cuba. Hence, for most Cubans, "guajira" connotes a quite different genre that emerged in the 1930s, as a sort of fusion of the son and the guajira, the "guajira-son," in 4/4 time. It resembled the son in rhythm, but presented a rural ethos by foregrounding the guitar (or tres) more than horns, percussion, or piano.
The guajira could be sung by a single musician accompanying himself on guitar; see trova. The lyrics of the guajira typically extol the beauty of the Cuban countryside and the lifestyle of the guajiros (countryside peasants).
Guajira may refer to:
- La Guajira Department, a department of Colombia which includes most of the Guajira Peninsula
- La Guajira Desert, a desert which covers most of the Guajira Peninsula
- Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America shared by Colombia and Venezuela
- Guajiro people, (Wayuu) a South American ethnic group inhabiting northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela
- Guajira (Cuban slang), a Spanish-language demonym signifying a female from the Cuban countryside (guajiro: male)
- Guajira (music), a style of Cuban music, song or dance
- Guajira (telenovela), Colombian telenovela
Guajira is a Colombian telenovela produced by RCN Televisión in 1996.
Usage examples of "guajira".
Now Idlewild is an airfield in the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, a sort of aeronautical Grand Central Station for blokes in the business.
At least the hot water worked, and a soak in the tub cleansed away the Guajira dust and soothed his cramped muscles.
If the rumors are true, then surely the merchandise is shipped through the Guajira, but none of it stops here.
Rumor has it that this outfit controls huge chunks of coca production in Peru, cocaine manufacture in Colombia, smuggling in the Guajira, and distribution in the United States.
It is far out at the northern tip of a dry and rocky peninsula called La Guajira, on which there are no roads and a great deal of overland truck traffic.
When I asked why, they replied I was coming from an area called Guajira, known to be populated by killers and thieves and men given over to lives of crime and violence.
When I tried to talk about Guajira, people would smile sympathetically and change the subject.
Compact and hard, as if forged in steel, with the bull neck typical of the warlike people from La Guajira, the general is a man of long, gloomy silences, and at the same time capable of openhearted intimacy with friends: He is pure Guajiran.
Maicao, on the remote Guajira peninsula, when Javier Ayala gave her the news.
Wednesday television program, she had gone to Guajira the day before to do a series of interviews.
He heard about the ports of Venezuela and Colombia and there was a long story about Guajira, the peninsula between the two countries where smugglers rule and where Indians still live the Indian life.
We sent three men to Berlitz for this purpose, but nineteen hours before the date scheduled for opening arguments, the defendant fled to Colombia, where he established residence in a fishing village called Guajira near the Venezuelan border, where the official language of jurisprudence is an obscure dialect known as “.
We sent three men to Berlitz for this purpose, but nineteen hours before the date scheduled for opening arguments, the defendant fled to Colombia, where he established residence in a fishing village called Guajira near the Venezuelan border, where the official language of jurisprudence is an obscure dialect known as Guajiro.
It is far out at the northern tip of a dry and rocky peninsula called La Guajira, on which there are no roads and a great deal of overland truck traffic.