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199 results where found for «Song of a Middling Man»
- Music piece by:lyrics: collective creation; music: 'Jálame la pitita' by Luis Abanto Morales (Peruvian polka)
- Testimony by:Lucía Chirinos
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, October 1973 - April 1974
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- « Let’s get going, would say “the lizards”, as we called the policemen, because they dress all in green. »
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- « a lovely little song that sounded »
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- Music piece by:lyrics: collective creation; music: 'Jálame la pitita' by Luis Abanto Morales (Peruvian polka)
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We always sang this song when we were taken to Regimiento Arica. That was a torture centre. »
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- « a lovely little song that sounded »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « After our transfer from Tres Álamos to Puchuncaví in April 1975, a group of prisoners began toying with the idea of presenting a poetic-theatrical performance about the history of Latin America’s indigenous cultures and their extermination under Iberian domination. »
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- « Three Indian Songs (Tres canciones indias) »
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- Music piece by:Ángel Parra
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November – December 1973
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- « Ángel Parra organised and directed the band Los de Chacabuco until his release from prison. Angel only conducted the group, and never sang or played an instrument. The exception was his farewell concert, which was the only time he sang at Chacabuco. »
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- « Love Song (Canción de amor) »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « Prison forced me to think quite a lot about my political past and my total commitment to an ideological cause, and its consequences. »
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- « although the song is the same »
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- Music piece by:Djordje Marinkovic. Chilean adaptation of traditional Serbian song, originally composed in 1916.
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « At Compingin Camp on the island, Mario started telling us about the Spanish lyrics of the Yugoslav song 'Tamo daleko'. The song was not Croatian: it was Serbian. »
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- « Djordje Marinkovic. Chilean adaptation of traditional Serbian song, originally composed in 1916. »
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- Music piece by:Jacqueline Misrahi, Lana Sebastian and Paul Sebastian. Popularised by Dalida in various languages: Italian ('Gigi L’amoroso'), Spanish ('Gigi el amoroso'), French ('Gigi l'amour'), English ('The Great Gigi l’amoroso'), German ('Gigi der Geliebte') and Japanese ('Ai suru Jiji').
- Testimony by:Eduardo René Cuevas
- Experience in:Regimiento de Infantería Reforzada Nº 3, Los Ángeles (nowadays Regimiento de Infantería Nº 17), October - November 1973
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- « This song was used while the Military Intelligence Service (SIM) subjected me to cruel torture at a clandestine torture centre in the southern Chilean city of Los Ángeles. »
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- « each song we sang was only a memory »
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- Music piece by:Luis H. Profili
- Testimony by:Edgardo Carabantes Olivares
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- « Horacio Carabantes Olivares, my brother, was locked up in January 1975 at the Maipo regiment of Valparaíso, with a large group of male and female prisoners, all arrested by the DINA. »
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- « without your song I cannot go on living. »
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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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- « A week later we held a cultural event in the dining room to celebrate the happy event occurrence. On that day I finished writing my song 'The Black King' and I sang it for the first time for an audience comprised of political prisoners and soldiers. »
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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Boris Chornik Aberbuch
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, March 1975
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- « The Puchuncaví detention camp’s daily routine included mandatory participation in the ceremonies of raising and taking down the Chilean flag on the flagpole at the entrance to the camp. »
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- « German love song that became popular among both Allied and Axis forces during WWII. »
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