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
Recommended Citation
Kube, Luciana Ph.D., "Hacia una bucólica criolla a través de los villancicos de Esteban Salas y la décima campesina" (2023). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5264.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/5264
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