Cantos Cautivos
25 results where found for «Canción de amor»
Love Song for a Disappeared Woman (Canción de amor a una desaparecida)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:
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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. »- [...]
- « Canción de amor a una desaparecida »
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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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- « Love Song (Canción de amor) »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « In our political discussions, we always spoke disdainfully of the middle class. In the view of the Marxist ideologues in prison, that sector of society supported the dictatorship and it was necessary to reverse that trend. »
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- « Canción de un hombre medio »
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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. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:David Quintana García
- Experience in:Intendencia de Rancagua, 1973
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- « I spent 45 days in the torture centre of Intendencia de Rancagua. Previously, I was detained with my brothers in the headquarters of the Cuartel de Investigaciones de Rancagua. »
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- « Famous Chilean group of the Nueva Canción movement, with strong affiliation to the Popular Unity coalition. »
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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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- « One day a comrade, Lucía, arrived with a guitar. She always entertained us with music; with songs that we used to listen to before the coup, particularly those of
Nueva Canción . We always sang 'Venceremos' ('We Shall Prevail') byQuilapayún , in its original version. »- [Read full testimony]
- 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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- « (Cuban) Poetic song form typically featuring voice and guitar, originated in 19th-century Cuba with roots in medieval Europe. The Nueva Trova emerged after the Cuban Revolution and became closely connected with Nueva Canción. »
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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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- « (1935-2009) Argentine singer-songwriter and one of the most important figures in the Nueva Canción movement. »
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- Music piece by:José Agustín Goytisolo (lyrics) and Paco Ibáñez (music)
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975 and 1976, until the closure of Tres Álamos
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- « There were so many of us women prisoners. Despite the circumstances, we had managed to invent our own world, one with our rules, according to what we thought and wanted for ourselves, our families and all the Chilean people. »
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- « Meanwhile, we continued in the middle of the belly of the beast, embroidering and singing our song that later, much later, became our anthem: 'Otros esperan que resistas, que les ayude tu alegría, que les ayude tu canción, entre sus canciones. Nunca te entregues, ni te apartes, junto al camino, nunca digas no puedo más y aquí me quedo, y aquí me quedo' (Others expect you to resist, that your joy helps them, that your song helps them among their songs. Never give in or turn away, stay on the path, never say I can’t go on anymore, and here I stay, here I stay). »
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- Music piece by:All the women present at that moment in Chacabuco
- Testimony by:Mónica García Cuadra
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, Summer of 1974
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- « I am the daughter of a former political prisoner who spent a long time imprisoned at Chacabuco, among other places. I am Monica, a little 9-year-old girl who travelled with a heavy heart full of sadness to visit her father, Gerardo García Salas, held at the Chacabuco concentration camp. I am an only child and in my young life, he is my sole reference point and, in essence, my image of masculinity. »
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- « Canción tácita »
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- « I have never been a great music listener. Nevertheless, before the coup I used to listen to
- « Daniela was the political codename of María Cecilia Labrín, a member of the