Canciones folklóricas de América

{{Infobox album

| name = Canciones folklóricas de América

| type = studio

| artist = Víctor Jara, Quilapayun

| cover = Canciones folklóricas de América.jpeg|border=yes

| alt =

| released = 1967

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Folk}}

| length = 36:43

| label = EMI/Odeon

| producer = Víctor Jara

| prev_title = Víctor Jara

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Pongo en tus manos abiertas

| next_year = 1969

| year = 1967

}}

Canciones folklóricas de América (Folk Songs of America) is the third studio album by Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, and second by Chilean folk group Quilapayún released in 1967, on the EMI and Odeon labels.

Music

The album was performed by Jara and Quilapayun, who established a "musical society" that began in 1966. It begins with a Jara's performance in English of Hush-a-bye, and although the album is called "Canciones folklóricas de América", includes two songs of Spanish origin, "Paloma del palomar" and "El tururururú". "Gira, gira, girasol" was written by Victor and the last song on the album, "El coneji", was originally a poem by Chilean Carlos Préndez Saldías, to which Víctor put music.

Artwork

The album cover shows a peaceful and colorful design of birds in the jungle.{{cite book |last1=Rodríguez |first1=Juan Pablo González |last2=Vásquez |first2=Oscar Ohlsen |last3=Cruz |first3=Claudio Rolle |title=Historia social de la música popular en Chile, 1950- 1970 |publisher=Ediciones UC |isbn=978-956-14-2632-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZ_uDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Canciones+folkl%C3%B3ricas+de+Am%C3%A9rica%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT455 |access-date=12 July 2021 |language=es}} Through Carlos Quezada, Vicente Larrea contacted Quilapayun and Victor for the design of the cover, Vicente at that time made about 120 album covers, 300 posters, and the logo of the label Discoteca del Cantar Popular (DICAP), which at that time was known as Jota Jota,{{cite web |title=Taller de los hermanos Larrea |url=https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-93233.html |website=Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |access-date=9 October 2022}} and it was the label in charge of releasing in Santiago the Jara's next album, Pongo en tus manos abiertas (1969).{{cite book |last1=Palominos |first1=Simón |title=Vientos del pueblo: Representaciones, recepciones e interpretaciones sobre la Nueva Canción Chilena |publisher=LOM Ediciones |isbn=978-956-00-1168-8 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd2RDwAAQBAJ&dq=jota+jota+pongo+en+tus+manos+abiertas&pg=PT126 |access-date=9 October 2022 |language=es}}

Release

Canciones folklóricas de América was released in 1967,{{cite web |title=Víctor Jara + Quilapayún: Canciones folklóricas de América (1968) |website=PERRERAC |url=https://perrerac.org/chile/vctor-jara-quilapayn-canciones-folklricas-de-amrica-1967/798/ |access-date=12 July 2021 |language=es |date=8 December 2018}} on the EMI,{{cite web |title=Canciones folklóricas de América Latina |url=https://www.musicapopular.cl/disco/canciones-folkloricas-de-america-latina/ |website=MusicaPopular.cl |access-date=14 July 2021 |language=es}} and Odeon labels. Jara for the album sales, received his first silver album.{{cite book |last1=Jurado |first1=Omar |last2=Morales |first2=Juan Miguel |title=Víctor Jara : te recuerda Chile |date=2003 |publisher=Txalaparta |location=Tafalla [Spain] |isbn=978-84-8136-301-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blUWokxjEF8C&dq=victor+jara+disco+de+plata&pg=PA285 |page=285|access-date=12 July 2021 |language=es}} EMI released the album in other Latin American countries such as Uruguay (1970) or Argentina (1983).{{cite web|title=Canciones folklóricas de América |url=http://www.nuevacancion.net/victor/folkloricas.html|website=www.nuevacancion.net|access-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224031547/http://www.nuevacancion.net/victor/folkloricas.html |archive-date=24 February 2012}}