Cantos Cautivos
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Claudio Enrique Durán Pardo (Kila Chico)
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- « We made a Venezuelan cuatro from a large plank of wood attached to one of the walls of the "ranch" where we ate. »
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- « Latin American string instrument of the guitar family. National instrument of Venezuela and Puerto Rico. »
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- Music piece by:Claudio Durán Pardo
- Testimony by:Claudio Enrique Durán Pardo
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, September - December 1975
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- « I first laid my hands on a quena when I was nine years old. It was resplendently fragile and lyrical. My passion for this instrument was immediate, or rather, the quena chose me. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We sang songs that were popular at the time. We’d sing 'What will the Holy Father say', especially the part that says 'What will the Holy Father who lives in Rome say ... they are slitting the throat of his dove...' quite often, for example when someone was taken off to Regimiento Arica, which was a torture centre. »
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- « I don’t play any instrument, nor do I sing because I have a horrible voice. When I was studying primary education pedagogy, a music teacher told me: 'Cecilia, please don’t sing to the children'. »
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- Music piece by:attributed to Gilberto Rojas Enríquez (Bolivia), Manuel Casazola Huancco (Perú), and the Andean oral tradition. Popularised in Chile by Violeta Parra and her children Isabel and Ángel Parra.
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is the last track on the cassette recorded by the band Los de Chacabuco in the concentration camp; it was digitised in 2015. »
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- « A small Andean plucked string instrument traditionally made from an armadillo shell or wood. »
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- Music piece by:Collective creation
- Testimony by:Ignacio Puelma
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque, February 1975
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- « The sound of the sea was carried over the cabins of the Ritoque Prison Camp by the wind. It was the daily music given to us as a gift by the ocean. »
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- « 'Se escucha muy lejos' (You Hear It from Far Away), was the title of the song. The lyrics and the music, driven by the instruments, gave life to a song that departed from the traditional music of the Chilean left of the time. »
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- Music piece by:José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, popularised by Nino Bravo.
- Testimony by:Paicavi Painemal
- Experience in:Comisaría de Carabineros N° 2, Temuco, 22 April 1985
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- « I’m from Chol Chol, part of the Coihue community. I was arrested along with 12 other people and they took us to the Second Police Station of Temuco. »
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- « The car was equipped with instruments of torture. They electrocuted me and did mock executions. »
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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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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, June 1976
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- « We were in Pavilion 1. One of us came up with the idea, I can’t remember who. There were so many of us and we spent the day inventing and creating things! »
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- « Small Andean plucked string instrument traditionally made from an armadillo shell or wood. »
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- Music piece by:unknown. Folk tune from the Andes highlands
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January - February 1974
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- « Agreeing to a suggestion from Ricardo, Los de Chacabuco learned and arranged this tune. In the
Andean high plateau , the tune is a satirical reference to lawyers and, by implication, to civil servants. It is performed at carnival time. »- [...]
- « We arranged it as an instrumental tune, with no lyrics. Ricardo played impressive solos on the
quena and the melody was accompanied by the rhythmic movements of the band members, something that was an innovation in our performances. Other instruments in use were guitar andcharango . »- [Read full testimony]
- 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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- « The version I recorded for the album Documento includes an instrumental introduction, inspired by the tune of an anthem sung in a concentration camp in the first years of Nazism in Germany. »
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- « Agreeing to a suggestion from Ricardo, Los de Chacabuco learned and arranged this tune. In the