Cantos Cautivos
189 results where found for «National Anthem of Chile»
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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- « and I contemplate your figure like a blade of grass »
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- Music piece by:Unknown. Traditional Spanish children's song
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We adapted this song and produced a play based on it. Each of us played one of the characters. We spent a lot of time on this. »
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- « And the smallest carried a bunch of flowers »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « One cold winter night of 1975, the small clinic of Melinka, in the Puchuncaví Detention Camp, became the setting for a touching story. »
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- « and his house was made of mud »
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- Music piece by:Félix Luna (lyrics) and Ariel Ramírez (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa.
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, January 1975
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- « It was not easy to endure being locked up in one of Villa Grimaldi’s miserable cells, which resembled vertical coffins. It was even harder in the high temperatures of the summer months of the Andes foothills in Peñalolén. I was inside one of those cells, blindfolded, my feet and hands in chains. »
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- « Along the soft sand »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Gabriela Durand
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- « I was 18, and already I had been tortured on the
parrilla several times. One day I was with some other comrade prisoners, and as sometimes happened, the guards put some music on. »- [...]
- « after a century of living »
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The Brief Space Where You Are Absent (El breve espacio en que no estás)
- Music piece by:Pablo Milanés
- Testimony by:Vilma Rojas Toledo
- Experience in:Cárcel de Coronel, 1986 - 1988
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- « I recall that during my time as a political prisoner,
Pablo Milanés was one of our greatest companions. His songs filled us with life, helped us to keep breathing and living behind the bars imposed by Pinochet’s military dictatorship. »- [...]
- « of filling the brief space »
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The Brief Space Where You Are Absent (El breve espacio en que no estás)
- Music piece by:Pablo Milanés
- Testimony by:Pedro Mella Contreras
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- « In the Penitentiary, we listened to the song 'The Brief Space Where You Are Absent' on the radio stations Aurora and Nuevo Mundo. »
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- « of filling the brief space »
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- Music piece by:Ariel Ramírez
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November – December 1973
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- « As far as I remember (and there may be other versions), Los de Chacabuco band was founded by Ángel Parra in response to a request by the Army chaplain Varela, who asked for assistance for the Mass he celebrated for both prisoners and soldiers. »
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- « Lord God, Lamb of God »
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- Music piece by:Tino Carrasco
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « Los de Chacabuco, a band founded and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this Venezuelan folk song, in the style of a joropo, singing it at the weekly prison camp show. I dare say it was one of the favourite songs of the audience, comprised of political prisoners. »
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- « because she is the loveliest of them all. »
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- Music piece by:Joan Manuel Serrat
- Testimony by:Beatriz Bataszew Contreras
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, December 1974 - May 1976
- « I recall that during my time as a political prisoner,
- « I was 18, and already I had been tortured on the