Forgotten sounds of the Spanish Civil War: jazz in the urban rearguard (1936-1939)

• Autores: Iván Iglesias
• Localización: Memoria e ricerca, ISSN 1127-0195, ISSN-e 1972-523X, Nº 58 (maggio-agosto), 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Musical notes and weapons: jazz and war, 1936-45), págs. 209-224
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article focuses on an unexplored topic of the Spanish Civil War: popular music as an active factor of social and cultural transformation in the major cities. The conflict of 1936- 1939 did not brought about a very significant decline of jazz in Barcelona and Madrid, but transformed music spaces and audiences, in parallel with workers' collectivization of theatres and ballrooms. In a context of populist exaltation, need for entertainment, and strong economic crisis, jazz was part of discourses and events strategically used by trade unions, cultural institutions and the media. As a result, jazz became a legitimate entertainment, a form of propaganda and fundraising, and a mediation of social revolution. The consequences of this process are essential to understand the considerable presence and negative connotations of jazz in the early Franco regime.