Coros y Danzas explores how women of the early Franco regime
adapted musical folklore and Spanish nationalism according to
different political circumstances. Author Daniel David Jordan
focuses on the end of the Spanish Civil War until the Pact of
Madrid with the United States-a period where Spain transformed
itself from a supporter of Nazi Germany to a faithful ally of the
Western Bloc. The Seccion Femenina of the fascist Falange party
officially represented the regime's views and policies on female
gender roles. Sending their instructoras de musica to remote
villages throughout the nation's diverse cultural and linguistic
regions to select, transcribe, and compose songs and dances, they
were portrayed as the keepers of Spanish folk music. Through their
Music Department, these women shaped traditional Spanish songs and
dances to promote ideas of Catholic morality throughout the
nation's culturally diverse regions, helped legitimize colonial
involvement in Spain's African territories, and formed political
ties with the Allied powers after World War II. The Seccion
Femenina was never simply a one-sided mouthpiece of the
dictatorship's nationalist, Catholic underpinnings. Despite the
Franco regime's patriarchal nature, many members were highly
independent, negotiating with local cultural elites and foreign
political diplomats to further their own careers and personal
philosophies. Drawing from literature on cultural diplomacy and
nation-building, Coros y Danzas proposes how the Seccion Femenina's
definition of Spanish cultural and racial purity was never
monolithic, but a malleable concept that was nuanced depending on
geographical and social contexts in which its members were
operating.
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