Cantos Cautivos
156 results where found for «The Black King»
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - October 1975
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- « During the last third of the 20th century, the concentration camps of the Chilean dictatorship were characterised by a high grade of organisation among prisoners, as well as the overflowing creativity they applied to all areas of human ingenuity. »
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- « There were comrades, like Sergio Vesely, who realised his vocation as a singer-songwriter and wrote 'El Rey Negro' (The Black King), to celebrate the birth of a girl in the camp during a starry June night. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « One cold winter night of 1975, the small clinic of Melinka, in the Puchuncaví Detention Camp, became the setting for a touching story. »
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- « there was a black king in the land. »
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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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- « and if they say you are black, they tell you to get out of here. »
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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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- « Songs are good for releasing a singer from tempestuous doubts and allowing him to denounce injustice openly, with no qualms. In other words, the way things are painted when we see the world in black and white. Joking aside, the positive medicinal effect of music therapy is undeniable. Beyond the value that a songwriter gives a song or that others may give, I think songwriting was a discovery that helped me, above all, to give meaning to my life as a prisoner. »
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- Music piece by:Nicolás Guillén (lyrics) and Quilapayún (music)
- Testimony by:Domingo Lizama
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 1973 - 1978
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- « In prison, there was a guy who played the guitar. He cheered up the afternoons in the cell. We all sang with him. »
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- « black people, your black hands »
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- Music piece by:Patricio Hermosilla Vives
- Testimony by:Patricio Hermosilla Vives
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January 1974
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- « Finally, in the Chacabuco Concentration Camp, after three days aboard the Policarpo Toro (a war ship which had an uncertain destination since sailing from Valparaíso in December 1973; the question was not when and where we would dock, but how we would fall overboard), I felt that death had decided to take a step back and watch from me from a little further away. »
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- « and light a blackish rose on her breast »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « After our transfer from Tres Álamos to Puchuncaví in April 1975, a group of prisoners began toying with the idea of presenting a poetic-theatrical performance about the history of Latin America’s indigenous cultures and their extermination under Iberian domination. »
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- « The black mama greets us »
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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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- « I stopped, looked at the black gate and remembered the song once more, also my comrades and my mother who located me here, after 14 days of looking for me at other detention centres. »
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- Music piece by:Cat Stevens, based on a traditional Gaelic hymn; lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
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- « At the time of the coup in 1973, this song was world-famous and frequently played on the radio. »
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- « Blackbird has spoken like the first bird »
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- Music piece by:Andrés Rivanera (lyrics) and Eugenio Moglia (music). Popularised by Los Moros and Jorge Yáñez.
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego Valdebenito
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- « In Chacabuco there were two theatres: one that was very beautiful and was linked to the old saltpetre works, where it is claimed (wrongly as it happens) that Caruso once performed, and another theatre that was inside the concentration camp. »
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- « galloping on his black mule »
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