Cantos Cautivos
169 results where found for «With the Sprouts I Sowed»
- Music piece by:unknown
- Testimony by:Patricio Polanco
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros de Pisagua, November 1973
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- « In 1973 and 1974, Pisagua was characterised by the harsh and cruel treatment of political prisoners. Singing was mandatory for prisoners, who were guarded by Army platoons, and it was also a means to avoid beatings and collective mistreatment. »
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- « and the sun of the future shines high »
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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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- « on the barb of the wire. »
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- Music piece by:poem by Francisco Pezoa Astudillo set to music by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, February 1975
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- « The first song that we managed to sing was Quilapayún's setting of the poem Canto a la Pampa (Song to the Pampa), by the anarchist poet Francisco Pezoa Astudillo, which recounts one of the bloodiest episodes of the class struggle in Chile: the massacre of the Santa María school in Iquique in December 1907. The prisoners of the large Room 13 of Cuatro Álamos camp sang it complete and as a chorus around February 1975. »
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- « not even in the prettiest part of the season. »
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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
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- « I sang this song, as a soloist, in the dressing rooms of the National Stadium. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Valencia Nieto
- Testimony by:Domingo Chávez Navarro
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - April 1974
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- « Marcelo Concha Bascuñán sang this song, which many of us liked. I personally knew Marcelo and we were both released from prison at the same time. I left the country, whereas Marcelo stayed in Chile. The DINA picked him up and since then he is one of so many disappeared people. »
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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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- « 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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Love Song for a Disappeared Woman (Canción de amor a una desaparecida)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « Daniela was the political codename of María Cecilia Labrín, a member of the
MIR . Agents of theDINA arrested her at her home on Latadía Street in Santiago in August 1974. She has never been seen again. »- [...]
- « (Revolutionary Left Movement) Left-wing political organisation founded in 1965 at the Univ. of Concepción. »
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- Music piece by:Ludwig van Beethoven
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973
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- « I like all classical music, particularly Beethoven and Mozart. I listen to it all day on Radio Esperanza, on the bus I drive. The passengers like it. »
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Recinto: Calle Irán Nº 3037 / Venda Sexy / La Discotheque- There are 2 testimonies about this detention centre.
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- « Daniela was the political codename of María Cecilia Labrín, a member of the