found: Work cat.: Pacheco, J. Vuela la paloma [SR] 195-:label (guajira)
found: Grove music online WWW site, March 20, 2008(guajira; a Cuban narrative song form; derived from rural folk tradition, it was still popular in rural and urban areas at the end of the 20th century as a significant popular music genre, part of the cancin̤ cubana complex)
found: Orovio, H. Cuban music from A to Z, 2004(guajira, musica; genre of Cuban song similar to the criolla; lyrics deal with country situations in an idyllic, bucolic manner; songs use rhyming stanzas, almost always following patterns of Cuban dčima poetry. Aside from its original meaning, the term guajira also has been used since the middle of the twentieth century to refer to dance compositions in slow 4/4 time that fuse elements of the son and guajira)
