Cantos Cautivos
186 results where found for «Dreams of my Imprisonment»
- Music piece by:Mario Patricio Cordero Cedraschi
- Testimony by:Mario Patricio Cordero Cedraschi
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, Winter of 1975
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- « I’d spent two years in prison and there was no end in sight for my time in jail. I observed during visiting hours that many prisoners had children, a wife, family. »
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- « Dreams of my Imprisonment (Sueños de mi encierro) »
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I’m Not from Here - To my Comrade, my Love (No soy de aquí - A mi compañera)
- Music piece by:Facundo Cabral, with lyrics modified by a political prisoner
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
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- « The choir of male prisoners sang a piece called 'A mi compañera' (To my comrade, my love) to the music of 'No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá' (I'm not from here, nor from there) by Facundo Cabral. »
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- « I don’t remember who wrote the lyrics. But that’s how I wrote it down in one of the ten notebooks I used to copy songs during my imprisonment. »
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- Music piece by:Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Popularized by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Claudio Melgarejo
- Experience in:Comisaría de Concepción, November 1973
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- « I spent a week in captivity, in November 1973. I didn’t hear many songs, but the most popular ones sung by my comrades were 'Venceremos' (We Shall be Victorious) and 'Que la tortilla se vuelva' (May the Omelette Flip Over), also known as 'The Tomato Song', which portrays the bosses' exploitation of the workers. »
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- « After my imprisonment in the police station in Concepción, I was required to sign in at the prison at 70 Chacabuco Street (Concepción Prison/El Manzano Prison) for the next five years. There I was tortured. They would take me away in a vehicle, with a hood over my head, and I would be found in the street at dawn. »
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Song of the Seed and the Plant (Canción de la semilla y la planta)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « The history of the seed and the plant, of which this song forms part, was performed as a play to entertain our audience of children during a family visit to the prison. Imagination had no limits when it came to kindling a small flame of hope in our hearts. »
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- « This children’s song was one of three in this genre I composed during my imprisonment. »
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- Music piece by:Antônio Marcos. Popularised in Chile by Claudio Reyes
- Testimony by:Carolina Videla
- Experience in:Cárcel Pública de Arica, January 1989
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- « My prison term happened during the last year of the dictatorship after the No vote won. I was set free because of 'lack of evidence', after a year and a half in prison. »
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- « When I remember my imprisonment, I feel a lot of nostalgia and sorrow for all it meant and did to me and my family. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « The dream of the political prisoner was to regain freedom. All of us would feel joy when one of us was about to be released from prison, although it far from easy to see a comrade depart. Even less so for those who suspected they would never enjoy that privilege. »
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- « It is hard to express what we felt upon reading the official notice informing us of the good news. From that moment on, our only thoughts were about our future beyond the prison walls: the imprisonment chapter of our lives was drawing to a close. We were about to be born again. »
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Prayer So You Don't Forget Me (Oración para que no me olvides)
- Music piece by:Óscar Castro (words) and Ariel Arancibia González (music)
- Testimony by:Rosalía Martínez
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, November - December 1974
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- « When Katia Chornik contacted me a few years ago asking me to provide my testimony about my musical experience in prison, I thought I didn’t have much to say. »
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- « think of my heart that dreams of you »
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- Music piece by:José Ángel Espinoza, aka Ferrusquillo
- Testimony by:Marcia Scantlebury
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, June 1975
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- « Mexican songs - and this one in particular - have always moved me. When I shared a cell with Miriam Silva, a young woman who belonged to the Communist Youth, arrested by the DINA when she was handing out leaflets on the street, we killed time in an organised fashion to keep ourselves from getting depressed and overcome by anxiety due to an unknown fate. »
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- « Studying the paper, they each had their theories, imagining the words might be conveying a hidden message blaming someone outside the country, or something like that. But Miriam insisted that it was only a way to exorcise our fear and give wing to dreams of love and freedom. That was how my family found out that I was alive and singing. »
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How Can I Describe This to You? (Cómo hacer para darte una idea)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « This is one of two songs I wrote in prison for my beloved Graciela. In the song I tried to draw her closer to me, describing my everyday world and my experience of life as a captive. »
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- « the hatred that invades my dreams, »
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- Music piece by:Julio Numhauser, popularised by the band Amerindios
- Testimony by:Carlos Muñoz
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975 - 1976
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- « One of the most important songs in the detention centres. Impossible to count how many times we sang it. Every time someone was released from a detention camp or there was credible information that a person would be sent into exile, a gigantic chorus would sing this song, in a powerful unison. No one could possibly forget it. Especially significant at Tres Álamos, as this was the “exit” camp. »
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- « carrying a bunch of dreams »
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