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T1 Performing the ‘anti-Spanish’ body: Jazz and biopolitics in the early Franco regime (1939–1957)
A1 Iglesias, Iván
K1 Jazz, Música de - España - Franquismo
K1 Jazz - Spain - Franquism
AB Through the study of censorship, legislation, the press, recordings and photographs,this chapter examines jazz as symbolic reference and musical practicein Franco’s Spain and argues that it played a contestatory role during theso-called ‘early Francoism’ period (1939–1957). The dictatorship that GeneralFranco established after the Spanish Civil War intensively and systematicallyused culture and music as propaganda to define its image and shape publicopinion. By its connotations and active presence, jazz became one of the mainnegative references of the new regime against which to define Spanish race andmusic under the precepts of nationalism, Catholicism and fascism.When the course of the Second World War threatened the authority of theFranco regime and its international position from 1944, the positive references toAmerican music in the media served as examples of the tolerance, renovation andpro-Allies orientation of the dictatorship. As such, it is difficult to find an explicitofficial condemnation of jazz in Spain after 1945. Nevertheless, jazz dancing continuedto be a subversive practice under the Franco regime until the mid-1950s.That subversion was not an intellectual and rational political gesture, but rather achallenge to Francoist biopolitics, the official precepts on morality and the body.Swing and boogie-woogie were directly linked to physical pleasure and corporealliberation, opposed to the stoicism and restraint promoted by the regime’s moralauthorities. Consequently, the dictatorship tried to impose continuous constraintson jazz through recreational and fiscal policies, which remained active even afterthe official discourse about American music changed in the mid-1940s.
PB Routledge
SN 9781315713915
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52685
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52685
LA eng
NO Johnson, Bruce  (ed.). Jazz and Totalitarianism. Routledge, 2016, p. 157-173
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-ene-2025