Cantos Cautivos
169 results where found for «Why the afternoon cries»
- Music piece by:Unknown. Popularised by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
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- « 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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- « and I in the way I melt. »
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- Music piece by:Unknown. Popularised by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Scarlett Mathieu
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- « In Cuatro Álamos, I was profoundly marked by the singing of a current detained-disappeared named Juan Chacón. He sang ‘En qué nos parecemos’, a love song from the Spanish Civil War. It remained engraved in me because that comrade disappeared from Cuatro Álamos. »
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- « and I in the way I melt. »
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How Can I Describe This to You? (Cómo hacer para darte una idea)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « This is one of two songs I wrote in prison for my beloved Graciela. In the song I tried to draw her closer to me, describing my everyday world and my experience of life as a captive. »
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- « and the desert, the desert of love »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « I don’t want to exaggerate but Camp Melinka became not only a factory that produced handicrafts and a performance hall but also a university. »
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- « If the cross came to this world »
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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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- « The grass covering the roads »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
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- « While waiting in the grandstands to be interrogated for the first, second or more times, we would sing 'Free' to those who were being lined up to be released. 'Free' was a catharsis, a mixture of joy for those who were going and hope for those of us left behind. Unfortunately, the dictatorship and its civil and military henchmen employed the song for their own propaganda. »
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- « but behind the cement is his home »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito
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- « This song was performed in the Stadium grandstands by a worker from the Madeco factory: Peineta Vasquez, winner of a Song Festival that was organised at grassroots level, during the times when we were allowed to leave the spaces under the grandstands, inside the stadium, to sunbathe, together with women from various countries, before they got sent off to the pool area. »
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- « but behind the cement is his home »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Marianella Ubilla
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, Christmas 1973
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- « I was taken prisoner on 23 November 1973, at the University of Concepción. In the Regional Stadium of Concepción, we had to sing the National Anthem every day. »
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- « but behind the cement is his home »
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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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- « venerated by the waters »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « A few weeks before being transferred to Valparaíso Jail - where I would face a war council on account of alleged violations of the State Interior Security Law and other military regulations that existed during the state of siege - I wrote a song that I called anthem, because I wanted it to be sung as a group at the end of our cultural events on Fridays. »
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- « From the Andes peaks »
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