Presentado junto a FIU | Una Velada con Luciana Kube Tamayo

Presentado junto a Cuban Research Institute de FIU.

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This book 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.

Luciana Kube Tamayo is a Venezuelan singer, scholar, and educator whose work bridges music, literature, and cultural studies, with a strong focus on Latin American musical traditions. Born in Caracas, she began her musical training at the Simón Bolívar Conservatory and continued her studies in Spain, including advanced training at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona.

She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature and currently teaches full-time at New World School of the Arts and at Florida International University (FIU) as an adjunct, where her interdisciplinary work connects music, history, and cultural identity. Her artistic and scholarly interests include Venezuelan popular music as well as early colonial genres such as the villancico, a central focus of her research.

Based in the United States, Luciana Kube works as a performing artist, researcher, and educator, presenting Latin American repertoire internationally and developing projects that integrate music, education, and cultural preservation.

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