Cantos Cautivos
70 results where found for «Las mañanitas»
- 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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- « Las mañanitas »
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- Music piece by:attributed to Gilberto Rojas Enríquez (Bolivia), Manuel Casazola Huancco (Perú), and the Andean oral tradition. Popularised in Chile by Violeta Parra and her children Isabel and Ángel Parra.
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is the last track on the cassette recorded by the band Los de Chacabuco in the concentration camp; it was digitised in 2015. »
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- « In a glass of wine »
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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
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- « I recited this poem in the National Stadium. I continued to do so in the Chacabuco prison camp, earning the nickname of “Venancio” from my fellow prisoners. »
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- « They scraped the tortillas »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « In our political discussions, we always spoke disdainfully of the middle class. In the view of the Marxist ideologues in prison, that sector of society supported the dictatorship and it was necessary to reverse that trend. »
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- « a middle-class Chilean and apolitical. »
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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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- « Casida of the Dark Pigeons (Casida de las palomas oscuras) »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « I don’t want to exaggerate but Camp Melinka became not only a factory that produced handicrafts and a performance hall but also a university. »
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- « they give him the last rites »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « 'Ñaca-ñaca' was an interjection we used at Camp Melinka whenever we wanted to signal and poke fun at any dark thought that might cross our minds. That may be why it seemed the ideal name to give to the paper maché puppet that played the role of the mean king in the puppet stories we performed to entertain the children who came to visit their captive fathers. »
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- « since without servants, power cannot last. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - October 1975
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- « During the last third of the 20th century, the concentration camps of the Chilean dictatorship were characterised by a high grade of organisation among prisoners, as well as the overflowing creativity they applied to all areas of human ingenuity. »
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- « since without servants, power cannot last. »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
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- « While waiting in the grandstands to be interrogated for the first, second or more times, we would sing 'Free' to those who were being lined up to be released. 'Free' was a catharsis, a mixture of joy for those who were going and hope for those of us left behind. Unfortunately, the dictatorship and its civil and military henchmen employed the song for their own propaganda. »
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- « and can at last fly. »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito
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- « This song was performed in the Stadium grandstands by a worker from the Madeco factory: Peineta Vasquez, winner of a Song Festival that was organised at grassroots level, during the times when we were allowed to leave the spaces under the grandstands, inside the stadium, to sunbathe, together with women from various countries, before they got sent off to the pool area. »
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- « and can at last fly. »
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