''X Vietnam'' or ''Por Vietnam'' is an album by

Quilapayún Quilapayún () are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the ''Nueva Canción Chilena'' movement and genre. Formed during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution th ...

released in 1968. This was among the first albums to be released under the DICAP label and was a success upon its release in Chile. The music and subject matter of the recording is very internationalist and was the first recording success of the

Nueva Canción Nueva canción (European , ; 'new song') is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics. ''Nueva canción'' is widely recognized to ...

Chilena. The album opens with a song denouncing the war in Vietnam, has songs from the Spanish Revolution, Afro-Cuban rhythms, an Italian folk song, a Soviet youth anthem and a song by Juan Capra that mourns the death of Che Guevara. Songs by

Violeta Parra Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal and ...

and Sergio Ortega inter alia with the local folkloric rhythms and social themes complete the album. The song ''"Los Pueblos Americanos"'' by

denounces disputes over national boundaries and calls on Latin America to unite. Sergio Ortega’s ''"

Cueca Cueca () is a family of musical styles and associated dances from Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. In Chile, the cueca holds the status of national dance, where it was officially declared as such by the Pinochet dictatorship on September 18, 1979 ...

Joaquín Murieta Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican-American figure of disputed historicity. The novel '' The Life and A ...

"'' is based on the

mythological Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrat ...

character of Joaquín Murieta. One version of his legend states that he travels to California during the gold rush from Chile; finds wealth and love then loses everything and embarks on a vindictive vendetta against those who ruined him. Ultimately the Chilean outlaw, Murieta,is apprehended and is decapitated by what could be the

KKK The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...

. The song ''"Canto a la

pampa The Pampas (from the qu, pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil ...

"'' depicts the poverty and bleak existence of mining communities of the north of Chile.

Track listing

#"Por Vietnam"/''Along Vietnam'' (Jaime Gómez Rogers -

Eduardo Carrasco Eduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard (born July 2, 1940 in Santiago) is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 t ...

) #"Que la tortilla se vuelva"/''May the tables turn'' ( Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio) #"Canción fúnebre para el Che Guevara"/''Mournful song for Che Guevara'' (Juan Capra) #"Mamma mia dame cento lire"/''Mother dear give me 100 liras'' (Italian Folk -

Italian partisans The Italian resistance movement (the ''Resistenza italiana'' and ''la Resistenza'') is an umbrella term for the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social ...

Hymn) #"La zamba del riego"/''Zamba song for the watering'' (Armando Tejada Gómez - Óscar Matus) #"Himno de las juventudes mundiales"/Hymn of World Youth (Anónimo) #"El turururururú" (2ª versión) (from the Spanish Revolution) #"Qué dirá el Santo Padre"/''What does the Holy Father have to say'' (

) #"Canto a la

"/''Song for the Pampas'' (Fernando Pezoa Véliz - Popular) #"La bola"/''The ball''" ( Carlos Puebla - Cuban folk) #"Los pueblos americanos"/''The common people of America'' (

) #"Cueca de

"/''Cueca dance for Joaquín Murieta '' (

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

- Sergio Ortega)

Personnel

*Julio Carrasco *Carlos Quezada *

Willy Oddó Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and scree ...

*Patricio Castillo

External links

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* X Vietnamat Allmusic {{Authority control Quilapayún albums 1968 albums Warner Music Group albums Spanish-language albums