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199 results where found for «Song of a Middling Man»
- Music piece by:Ángel Parra
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November - December 1973
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- « This is the original version of a composition by Ángel Parra at Chacabuco, as secretly recorded at the prison camp during his farewell concert. The composer’s voice can be heard. »
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- Music piece by:Hans Leip
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - Octobre 1975
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- « During the daily flag-lowering ritual in the camp Melinka, the prisoners first had to get into formation in the courtyard and then walk in line to the location of the mast. »
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- « I lowered my head, closed my eyes and listened, just listened, to these steps approaching, becoming louder, shaking the ground, going past me, and as they marched away, they left their singing floating in the air, where the loyal Lili Marlene was waiting for me under the light of a single streetlamp outside the barracks gates. »
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- Music piece by:Hans Leip
- Testimony by:Rogelio Felipe Castillo Acevedo
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, November 1974
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- « We were forced to belt out these marching songs. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « One of the most amazing experiences I had during my six months in the Puchuncaví Prison Camp was to see the metamorphosis of the barbed wire fence into a huge musical score. »
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- « This happened when a flock of swallows made a surprise visit and hundreds of them perched at different heights on the stiff barbed wire. It was the image that inspired this song. »
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Recinto: Recinto Comando Conjunto, Nido 20- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Recinto: Recinto Comando Conjunto, Nido 18- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Region: Antofagasta- There are 28 testimonies in this region.
- There are 1 detention centres with testimonies from a total of 36 detention centres
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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
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- « I was detained in Panguipulli on 24 September 1973, along with 17 other young people. I was a high school student. I was also working at the forestry and logging company of Huilo Huilo, which had been taken over by the working class. »
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- « and your field of embroidered flowers »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Cantoral
- Testimony by:Ana María Arenas
- Experience in:Calle Irán Nº 3037 / Venda Sexy / La Discotheque, December 1974
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- « The day I was captured, after the first torture session, I asked for permission to sing a Christmas carol, the name of which I cannot remember. I did it to let one of my captive friends know that I was also at the Venda Sexy. »
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- « Of my helpless pain. »
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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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