Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Spanish

First Advisor's Name

Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Dr. David Dolata

Second Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Third Advisor's Name

Dr. Renée M. Silverman

Third Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fourth Advisor's Name

Dr. Medardo Gabriel Rosario

Fourth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Keywords

Colonial Literature, Musicology, Rhetoric, Music History, Cuba, Villancico, Bucólica, Criolla, Villancicos, Esteban Salas, décima campesina, identidad latinoamericana, Bucolic, Arcadia, Arcadismo, Arcadic

Date of Defense

3-29-2023

Abstract

My dissertation topic in English translation is “Towards a Creole Pastoral: From Esteban Salas’s Colonial Carols to the Country-Folk décima.” It traces the pastoral tradition, centered on the symbolic figure of the shepherd, from Theocritus, Virgil, and the Bible to the Spanish Golden Age, and then to the Spanish-American colonies, reaching Cuba’s most important ecclesiastical composer, Esteban Salas, in the late eighteenth century. At the same time, it studies the development of the pastoral Spanish villancico (village carol) from late Medieval Spain to the colonies, right up to Independence. Finally, it illustrates how this tradition contributes, after Independence, to the formation of a national type, the guajiro –by any other name, an emblematic figure of nationhood from Argentina and Brazil to Mexico– and its signature musical form based on the Iberian octosyllabic verse and rhyme patterns applied to improvisational point-counterpoint debate competition between two or more rural bards, a genre still cultivated today throughout Latin America.

Identifier

FIDC011068

ORCID

0009-0007-8670-8227

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