Cantos Cautivos
23 results where found for «Everything Changes»
- 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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- « Changes, everything changes. »
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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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- « everything changes colour. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Gabriela Durand
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- « I was 18, and already I had been tortured on the
parrilla several times. One day I was with some other comrade prisoners, and as sometimes happened, the guards put some music on. »- [...]
- « changes everything »
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- 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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- « changes everything »
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Prayer So You Don't Forget Me (Oración para que no me olvides)
- Music piece by:Óscar Castro (words) and Ariel Arancibia González (music)
- Testimony by:Rosalía Martínez
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, November - December 1974
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- « When Katia Chornik contacted me a few years ago asking me to provide my testimony about my musical experience in prison, I thought I didn’t have much to say. »
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- « I also think that everything related to music is part of an affective memory, a memory of bodies, of affections, of the emotions in which are rooted the reasons why we struggle. »
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- Music piece by:Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . We knew that we had been arrested that morning, and we knew nothing else yet. »- [...]
- « Inside, everything quakes »
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- Music piece by:Clan 91
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
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- « We had a comrade who sang beautifully. He was called Peye and was a student at the State Technical University. »
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- « Music was very important on Dawson Island. People would sing in the evenings, especially Argentinian folk songs and everything that we wrote. »
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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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- « To me music is everything in life; it's what gets me through each day. My mum played the piano, one of my brothers played the guitar. »
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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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- « One song went like this: 'La vida es bella ya verás, como a pesar de los pesares, tendrás amigos, tendrás amor, tendrás amigos. Un hombre solo, una mujer, así tomados, de uno en uno, son como polvo, no son nada, no son nada'. (Life is beautiful you'll see, despite everything, you’ll have friends, find love, have friends. A man alone, a woman alone, are like dust, are nothing, are nothing.) »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Joaquín Vallejos
- Experience in:Academia de Guerra Naval, January 1974
- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of
- « I was 18, and already I had been tortured on the