Folclore, tipismo y política. Los trajes regionales de la Sección Femenina de Falange

Abstract

Costumes were a prominent element in the use made of folklore by the Franco dictatorship in Spain, and specifically music and dance shows, for ideological and political propaganda, both indoors and outdoors. This task, like other educational and control types, was expressly commissioned and performed by the Women's Section of the only political organization of the regime, the Spanish Falange, Traditionalist and JONS. Starting from the idea that the so-called Spanish costumes have worked and still work today as a complex cultural construction, will outline the importance in this process of "invention of tradition" of the political moment represented by the Franco regime and define their ideological bases.