Cantos Cautivos
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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: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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- « When we were detained, listening to the music of the Unidad Popular took us back to the times during which we were together with the people. Those memories lifted our spirits. »
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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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- « There was a very friendly young guard who would let us into the courtyard when she was on a night shift. We would play cards, sing and look at the moon. The guard liked trova music and listening to me sing. »
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- Music piece by:Los Prisioneros
- Testimony by:Eduardo Andrés Arancibia Ortiz
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1986
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- « I learnt about Los Prisioneros through the 'Hecho en Chile' programme on Radio Galaxia, presented by
Sergio 'Pirincho' Cárcamo . Their music became our trench and musical poetry, like all other forms of struggles against dictatorship. »- [...]
- « I was already listening to the 'Nuestro Canto' programme presented by
Miguel Davagnino on Radio Chilena in 1976. From 1986 I listened to the music dissident to the dictatorship on Radio Umbral, played by the late Pedro Henríquez. This was the radio panorama that allowed us to hear the voices and sounds of resistance. »- [Read full testimony]
- 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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- « Two comrades would spend a day taking down the lyrics of the songs, and I would spend two days listening attentively to transcribe the harmonic and rhythmic accompaniment, which I would write down in the usual manner that popular music operates. On the fourth day, the record would leave the prison. »
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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, September 1973
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- « We arrived at Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . All we knew was that we had been arrested in the morning - nothing else. »- [...]
- « In Cochrane, the marines were really ignorant about music. More than once Lanfranco sang 'Te recuerdo Amanda' (I remember you, Amanda). The marines had no idea what they were listening to. »
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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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- « But listening to classical music reminds me of what happened in prison and it produces a short circuit in me. »
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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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- « It was a fairly well-known popular song with lyrics that go 'Yo me pondré a vivir en cada rosa…' (I will live in every rose...), do you know it? It was the song that Cecilia and Flavio had fallen in love listening to. »
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- Music piece by:Rosario Sansores and Carlos Brito Benavides. Popularised in Chile by Lucho Barrios
- Testimony by:Juan Carlos de Luján Peralta Aranguiz
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- « I arrived in this place as a war prisoner when I was 16 years old. »
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- « In Blas Cañas, many of my mornings began listening to the song 'Shadows'. I didn’t know the song at the time. It wasn’t to my taste. »
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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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- « While listening to one of those professors, I learned about Father Bartolomé de las Casas, a priest who lived in Central America and earned the title of Defender of the Indians during the harshest period of the Spanish Conquest. His life was marked by defeat. He was unable to stop the abuses committed with the consent of the Catholic Church, which was his spiritual home. »
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- « We arrived at Dawson Island on the afternoon of
- « I learnt about Los Prisioneros through the 'Hecho en Chile' programme on Radio Galaxia, presented by