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  2. Guillermo Portabales - Wikipedia

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    Portabales' early work is represented on Tumbao TCD 084 Guillermo Portabales: El creador de la guajira de salón 1937–1943: Al vaivén de mi carreta. It is this CD, with its liner notes, which may be the source of the incorrect dates. His voice, and particularly his guitar technique, improved greatly with experience.

  3. Guajira (music) - Wikipedia

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    Guajira [ɡwaˈxi.ɾa] is a music genre derived from the punto cubano.According to some specialists, [1] the punto cubano was known in Spain since the 18th century, where it was called "punto de La Habana", and by the second half of the 19th century it was adopted by the incipient Spanish Flamenco style, which included it within its "palos" with the name of guajira. [2]

  4. Guajiras (Flamenco) - Wikipedia

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    It is in 12 beats and feels like it starts on 12. The guajira is a prime example of so-called cantes de ida y vuelta. [2] [3] The flamenco guajira is the adaptation to Melos flamenco of the Cuban point, the peasant point, a genre that brings together a series of songs called Guajiros that are grown in the rural areas of the island of Cuba. [3]

  5. Buena Vista Social Club - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the cultural and social centers were abolished, including the Afro-Cuban mutual aid Sociedades de Color in 1962, to make way for racially integrated societies. [3] [10] Private festivities were limited to weekend parties and organizers' funds were confiscated. [11] The measures meant the closure of the Buena Vista Social Club. [5]

  6. Flamenco (1995 film) - Wikipedia

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    The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bulerías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de Huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.

  7. Wayuu people - Wikipedia

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    The feature film Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage, 2019) is set on the Guajira peninsula and among the Wayuu in the 1970s. Directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, it stars José Acosta and Carmiña Martínez. In addition, many non-actor Wayuu are included in the film, which is primarily in the Wayuu language.

  8. Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal - Wikipedia

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    He was contacted in 1996 by musician/producer Juan de Marcos Gonzalez and invited to record two albums with a group of veteran Cuban musicians, to be called the Afro-Cuban All Stars. [7] A British record producer, Nick Gold , owner of World Circuit Records, had become fascinated by the Son Cubano , which came from eastern Cuba with Hispanic and ...

  9. Punto guajiro - Wikipedia

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    Punto guajiro or punto cubano – or simply punto – is a sung genre of Cuban music, a poetic art with music.It became popular in the western and central regions of Cuba in the 17th century, [1] and consolidated as a genre in the 18th century. [2]