Cantos Cautivos
148 results where found for «Tacit Song»
- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
- Tags:
- « During Christmas 1973, I was one of some 600 men and 100 women prisoners in Concepción Regional Stadium. »
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- « Accompanying ourselves on that guitar, many political prisoners, men and women, sang either as soloists, in duos or in groups. I played Victor Jara’s song 'El cigarrito'. »
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- Music piece by:Hamlet Lima Quintana
- Testimony by:Ana María Jiménez
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, April 1975
- Tags:
- « I want to recall a night at Villa Grimaldi. »
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- « Argentine singer-songwriter and one of the most important figures in the Nueva Canción movement. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Canto and Luis Cifuentes (lyrics), Roberto Parra (music)
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
- Tags:
- « This
cueca was composed at Chacabuco sometime between November 1973 and February 1974 and was sung by Los de Chacabuco, of which Víctor Canto and I were members. »- [...]
- « This song was written very quickly and was ready in less than a day. I don’t remember exactly where we were when we composed it, but it may have been the house I shared with other comrades or the house where the group rehearsed - located in what we called 'the civic district' - or seated at the group tables where we ate. »
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- Music piece by:Spanish version of 'Makhnovtchina', attributed to Ukranian anarchist Nestor Makhno, based on anonymous Russian melody.
- Testimony by:Julio Laks Feller
- Experience in:Recinto DINA, José Domingo Cañas Nº 1367, September 1974
- Tags:
- « In late September 1974, the Soviet partisan’s song was intoned softly but with an awe-inspiring force in the José Domingo Cañas torture centre. »
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- Music piece by:Unknown. Popularised by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
- Tags:
- « During the 1960s, the group Quilapayún popularised this old Spanish song in Chile. Víctor Canto and I performed it as a duet in Santiago’s National Stadium, which had been converted into a concentration, torture and extermination camp. »
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- Music piece by:Unknown
- Testimony by:Sigifredo Ramos Vásquez
- Experience in:Cárcel de Temuco, September - December 1973
- Tags:
- « My experience during our captivity can be summed up in this personal observation. Protest songs were forbidden, so we had no other option than to sing religious songs. »
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- Music piece by:Fred Rauch (lyrics) and Gerhard Winkler (music). English lyrics by Carl Sigman. Recorded by Frankie Laine.
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
- Tags:
- « I sang this song, as a soloist, in the dressing rooms of the National Stadium. »
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- Music piece by:Mario Patricio Cordero Cedraschi
- Testimony by:Mario Patricio Cordero Cedraschi
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, Winter of 1975
- Tags:
- « I’d spent two years in prison and there was no end in sight for my time in jail. I observed during visiting hours that many prisoners had children, a wife, family. »
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- « This concern became a nightmare and led to these verses that turned into a song and filled the last page of my prison songbook, where I’d written down a number of ballads sung by other prisoners. »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Sara De Witt
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, September 1976
- Tags:
- « We were in Tres Álamos barracks in September 1976. I don’t recall how many of us women were imprisoned there. I believe there were close to a hundred of us. »
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- « The reference is to the song 'El barco de papel' by Julio Numhauser. »
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From the Poplars I have Come, Mother (De los álamos vengo, madre)
- Music piece by:Juan Vásquez
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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