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318 results where found for «Ese muerto no lo cargo yo»
The Dead Man Won't Be Pinned on Me (Ese muerto no lo cargo yo)
- Music piece by:Graciela Arango de Tobón, popularised in Chile by Giolito y su Combo, and by Los Vikings 5
- Testimony by:Joaquín Real Hermosilla
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- « From that troubled time, I would like to remember an activity that kept us active during the harsh confinement in Las Bandurrias. It is about music, an artistic expression that revealed the talent of several political prisoners and allowed us to endure the confinement for almost six months. »
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- « The Dead Man Won't Be Pinned on Me (Ese muerto no lo cargo yo) »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « Visitors’ day was an exceptional day that broke the monotonous routine of all the other days of the week. »
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- « In these evenings nostalgia will visit everyone »
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- Music piece by:Attributed to Charles Albert Tindley
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Cárcel de Concepción / Cárcel El Manzano, December 1974
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- « When the concentration camp that operated for nearly five months at the Regional Stadium of Concepción was closed in early February 1974, hundreds of political prisoners were transferred to the Concepción Prison, a wing of which was turned into a concentration camp. »
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- « With a smaller group, which we called 'The hard-boiled eggs' (I still have no idea where that name came from or how we chose it), we presented a show every other Sunday at noon. There we’d accompany anyone who wanted to sing a song of their choice. But that, too, is another story. »
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- Music piece by:Jorge Peña Hen
- Testimony by:María Fedora Peña
- Experience in:Cárcel de la Serena, October 1973
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- « 'Look here, Maria Fedora. I’ve brought you a treasure', it was the voice of my brother Juan Cristián as he crossed the doorway of our mother’s house one morning in January 1983. »
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- « May everyone play these notes, may everyone sing them, may everyone hum them. Music by
Jorge Peña Hen - the best way to remember him. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Eduardo Falú and Jaime Dávalos
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « The Los de Chacabuco band, created and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this zamba by Eduardo Falú and Jaime Davalos at the camp’s weekly shows. »
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- « My personal memory of it is that I sang these verses as a solo: “No tengo miedo al invierno / con tu recuerdo lleno de sol” (I'm not afraid of winter / with my memory of you full of sunshine). »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Canto Fuenzalida (lyrics), Efraín Navarro (music)
- Testimony by:Víctor Canto Fuenzalida
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, June 1974
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- « Filistoque is a real-life person in all his mighty height (1.90 metres tall). I always remember him laughing. In Chacabuco, we shared a house for nearly ten months. Around him, you were never allowed to become depressed or get into a stew over our situation. »
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- « No one could be oblivious to his presence. Just a greeting from Filistoque enlivened the streets of Chacabuco. A figure like him deserved a cueca of his own. Cheers to you, dear comrade, wherever you are. »
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- Music piece by:Manuel M. Ponce
- Testimony by:Beatriz Bataszew Contreras
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, December 1974 - May 1976
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- « To every comrade who had a birthday, we would sing 'Las mañanitas' and we would give them presents. The majority of the female prisoners would come together and sing to you. I spent one birthday in prison. Birthdays were important for everyone because we were alive. Because you have a birthday when you’re alive. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We sang songs that were popular at the time. We’d sing 'What will the Holy Father say', especially the part that says 'What will the Holy Father who lives in Rome say ... they are slitting the throat of his dove...' quite often, for example when someone was taken off to Regimiento Arica, which was a torture centre. »
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- « People always want to listen to these traditional cuecas. Figure of eight, turn around, you necessarily have to dance the cueca like that, it's so rigid and that doesn’t work for me. »
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- Music piece by:Eduardo Gatti
- Testimony by:Scarlett Mathieu
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- « ‘Moments’ was a song sung by the female comrades whose partners were imprisoned on the other side of Tres Álamos, or were fugitives or disappeared. We all sang it, but it was like their anthem. »
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- « The ‘Ode to Joy’ by Beethoven was one of our anthems. It was important for what it represented. We even changed the lyrics: ‘beyond the stars’ became ‘beyond borders’ because many prisoners would go into exile. »
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- Music piece by:Tito Fernández
- Testimony by:Servando Becerra Poblete
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, 9 November 1973 - 10 November 1974