Cantos Cautivos
911 results where found for «El cautivo de Til Til»
Recinto: Tenencia de Carabineros, Til Til
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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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- « May the Omelette Flip Over (Que la tortilla se vuelva) »
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- Music piece by:Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . We knew that we had been arrested that morning, and we knew nothing else yet. »- [...]
- « Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa »
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- Music piece by:text by Saint Thomas Aquinas; music by Lorenzo Perosi
- Testimony by:Roberto Navarrete
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, November 1973 - April 1974
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- « The political prisoners’ cell block in Santiago Prison was established when they transferred many people from the National Stadium in October or November 1973. »
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- « bella premunt hostilia »
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You Will Pay (The Cigarette Smoke) (Pagarás [El humo del cigarrillo])
- Music piece by:Manuel Mantilla
- Testimony by:Fernando Aravena
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1989
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- « The political prisoners were isolated but when they made us go down to the courtyard, we were with the common prisoners. »
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- « Manuel Mantilla »
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- Music piece by:unknown. Folk tune from the south of Chile
- Testimony by:Teresa Retamal Silva
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, Chillán, May 1974
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- « The Cárcel Buen Pastor was a compound run by nuns. They called us political prisoners and were anxious to collect information about us to pass it on to our tormentors. »
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- « The Rack (El costillar) »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Ernesto Parra Navarrete
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, 9 November 1973
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- « Run Run... On the big pitch, mild summer weather was in the air. »
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- « But for us, aching from the torture, hungry, haggard, stinking, tattered, tired of our uncertain future, all we longed for was a breath of energy that would allow us to feel that we were still alive and that the feelings of our absent loving partners were present. »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Sara De Witt
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, September 1976
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- « We were in Tres Álamos barracks in September 1976. I don’t recall how many of us women were imprisoned there. I believe there were close to a hundred of us. »
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- « I entered one of the rooms to gather up the things on the floor and straighten up the place. I found a notebook with the owner’s name on the cover, Guacolda; she had been very meticulous about compiling the words of our songs. I still have the notebook in my house in London, and even though its pages have turned yellow with age, you can still read the lyrics of our songs. That night, dressed in our blue tracksuits, after having a bite to eat, we began to sing again. »
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- Music piece by:Federico García Lorca (words), Paco Ibáñez (music)
- Testimony by:Luis Alfredo Muñoz González
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, February - March 1975
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- « According to scientists, memory and music processing are situated in a deep, ancestral part of the brain, where it is zealously guarded. »
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- « “Bravo!”, croaked a man’s voice. “Very beautiful. I am a priest (Belgian? Dutch? I don't remember). “Do you think they will kill me?” the foreign-sounding voice asked me. “No…”. I never saw or heard anything about the Argentine woman or the European priest again. But I did learn that she survived. I still feel satisfaction at having embraced them with my song and my voice. »
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- Music piece by:Hans Leip
- Testimony by:Rogelio Felipe Castillo Acevedo
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, November 1974
- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of