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Guajira (Spanish: música guajira [ˈmusika ɣwaˈxiɾa] meaning country music in Cuban Spanish) is a musical form which evokes a rural ambience in its texts instrumentation and style.In the years around 1900 a style of guajira emerged in association with Cuban music theater especially as composed by Jorge Anckermann.This genre had some similarity to the criolla and to a lesser extent the punto. It contains bucolic countryside lyrics rhyming similar to décima poetry.