Cantos Cautivos
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I’m Not from Here - To my Comrade, my Love (No soy de aquí - A mi compañera)
- Music piece by:Facundo Cabral, with lyrics modified by a political prisoner
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
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- « The choir of male prisoners sang a piece called 'A mi compañera' (To my comrade, my love) to the music of 'No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá' (I'm not from here, nor from there) by Facundo Cabral. »
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- Music piece by:Jorge Peña Hen
- Testimony by:María Fedora Peña
- Experience in:Cárcel de la Serena, October 1973
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- « 'Look here, Maria Fedora. I’ve brought you a treasure', it was the voice of my brother Juan Cristián as he crossed the doorway of our mother’s house one morning in January 1983. »
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- « I took the tiny piece of paper that had been meticulously folded, on which one could make out snippets of musical staves and some notes. Without opening it, I brought the paper to my nose. Closing my eyes, I breathed in deeply, and I felt my father’s scent permeate my soul. »
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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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- « Since Miriam also liked music, one of the activities we planned was to spend the afternoons singing. On a piece of toilet paper I copied down the words to the song 'Échame a mí la culpa', so she could learn it and then we could sing it together. »
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- Music piece by:Hamlet Lima Quintana
- Testimony by:Ana María Jiménez
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, April 1975
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- « I want to recall a night at Villa Grimaldi. »
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- « (1941-) Brazilian singer-songwriter, known as the King of Latin Music. »
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- Music piece by:Claudio Iturra (lyrics) and Sergio Ortega (music)
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « I was studying to be a chemistry teacher at the University of Chile in La Serena. I was 21 years old when I was arrested. I think I was picked up due to a specific fact. I was regularly sent copies of the El Rebelde newspaper by train, in order to distribute them in parts of Region IV. »
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- « That’s how we found out about the things that were going on. It was a radio shared by the whole prisoner community so we’d play music that we could all listen to. I wasn’t able to listen to the type of music I would have preferred at times, such as classical music. »
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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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- « It is hard to conceive of a day without music. For me music is to spend all day with my headphones on, listening to different kinds of music. »
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- Music piece by:Luis Advis
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla
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- « Between March 1974 and July 1975, I had the opportunity to arrange about 200 songs and direct the production of the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique. In truth, the prison was my conservatoire. That’s where I learnt the basics of the profession of musician. »
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- « This experience showed us the undoubted force that art has, mostly – in the case of music – those pieces, works or songs of popular, traditional or classical music that, bring masterly together a profound text, with appropriate music and an enormous dose of humanism. »
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- Music piece by:Nydia Caro and Ricardo Ceratto
- Testimony by:Beatriz Bataszew Contreras
- Experience in:Calle Irán Nº 3037 / Venda Sexy / La Discotheque, 12 - 18 December 1974
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- « I have never been a great music listener. Nevertheless, before the coup I used to listen to
Nueva Canción , especially Quilapayún and Rolando Alarcón. I also liked cumbias, to fool around. We would dance and have fun. »- [...]
- « The music had the purpose of covering the screams and the hubbub. Anyone in the vicinity would have taken notice of this music playing all day. »
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- Music piece by:Julio Numhauser
- Testimony by:Carolina Videla
- Experience in:Cárcel Pública de Arica, 1989-1990
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- « My guitar accompanied me for the entire time that I was deprived of freedom. It was like a magnet. In the afternoon we would sing and play in the courtyard. »
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- « More than one guard asked us 'how is the music?'. 'Oh', I would say, 'well'. I understood that it meant 'I like your music' or 'good that you play the guitar'. »
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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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- « I have never been a great music listener. Nevertheless, before the coup I used to listen to