Cantos Cautivos
148 results where found for «Tacit Song»
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Anexo Cárcel Capuchinos, 1976
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- « This song is a tribute to Miguel Enríquez, Secretary-General of the
MIR , who was gunned down by a commando of the dictatorship’s secret police on 5 October 1974. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Julio Numhauser, popularised by the band Amerindios
- Testimony by:José Selín Carrasco Vargas
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- « While we were imprisoned in Melinka, this song was sung every time that one of us was released. I remember a fellow prisoner nicknamed Bigote Molina (Moustache Molina) singing the song when we were going to Tres Álamos, from where we would be released a few days later. »
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- Music piece by:Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Popularized by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Claudio Melgarejo
- Experience in:Comisaría de Concepción, November 1973
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- « I spent a week in captivity, in November 1973. I didn’t hear many songs, but the most popular ones sung by my comrades were 'Venceremos' (We Shall be Victorious) and 'Que la tortilla se vuelva' (May the Omelette Flip Over), also known as 'The Tomato Song', which portrays the bosses' exploitation of the workers. »
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- Music piece by:Nicolás Guillén (lyrics) and Quilapayún (music)
- Testimony by:Domingo Lizama
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 1973 - 1978
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- « In prison, there was a guy who played the guitar. He cheered up the afternoons in the cell. We all sang with him. »
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- « We sang a lot of songs from the Spanish Civil War, for example, 'Dime dónde vas morena', the Mexican song 'Carabina 3030' and the Argentinian song 'Balderrama'. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
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- « They said that once you got to the prison of Teja Island, you were safe. »
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- « The owner of the guitar was an academic who knew songs by
Víctor Jara, Quilapayún and Inti-Illimani . They were popular at that time and we identified with them. Their songs represented the people and the peasants. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Unknown
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
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- « One time, a group of male and female evangelicals came to Teja Island to preach. They were taken to the visitors’ yard. »
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- « They began installing their guitars, basses, keyboards and drums. I thought: 'this will be big'. They sang their Christian praise and worship songs. »
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- Music piece by:José Ángel Espinoza, aka Ferrusquillo
- Testimony by:Marcia Scantlebury
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, June 1975
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- « Mexican songs - and this one in particular - have always moved me. When I shared a cell with Miriam Silva, a young woman who belonged to the Communist Youth, arrested by the DINA when she was handing out leaflets on the street, we killed time in an organised fashion to keep ourselves from getting depressed and overcome by anxiety due to an unknown fate. »
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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. »- [...]
- « The guys used to put the radio on, playing popular tunes of the time. For us young people, the songs were a bit corny, but still, we enjoyed them, they were a relief. We always kept absolute silence. »
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- Music piece by:Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio
- Testimony by:Sergio Reyes Soto
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, 1973 - 1974
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- « This song, like so many others, was not at all “captive”. The revolutionary songs we sang behind bars imbued us with a sense of freedom.
Rolando Alarcón , and laterQuilapayún , introduced “Dicen que la patria es” (or “Canción de soldados”) to Chile. »- [...]
- « (1929-1973) Chilean singer-songwriter and poet of the Nueva Canción and Neofolklore movements. »
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Captain, our Destiny is a Wandering Island (Capitán, el rumbo es una isla errante)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « This song was dedicated to Óscar Castro, whom I was lucky enough to meet in 1975, in Puchuncaví. With his experience in theatre – Óscar was already a fairly well-known actor before his arrest – he threw himself into the cultural work we had organised, in what was then called “Camp Melinka” where the prisoners presented a show every Friday. »
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- « This song, like so many others, was not at all “captive”. The revolutionary songs we sang behind bars imbued us with a sense of freedom.
- « I was 18, and already I had been tortured on the
- « This song is a tribute to Miguel Enríquez, Secretary-General of the