Moving past Franco’s Art and Censorship: The case of the female Flamenco dancer

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

471 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

The Roma culture has always been a marginalised community within Spain yet revered for its performance artistry. This article explores flamenco and female flamenco dancers under the Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). I discuss censorship under the political leader and its influence on flamenco and investigate the dynamics of women onstage within the flamenco sphere as seen through the documentary series Rito y Geografía (Rite and Geography) (1971-1974). Gender roles are examined through analysis of popular culture during Franco’s Spain and the manner in which he portrayed and romanticised the female flamenco dancer. I argue that he used the flamenco series as the vessel to manipulate discourse. Franco exploited flamenco to promote tourism and capitalised on the female flamenco dancer and used the series to promote a national identity.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)102-124
Number of pages24
JournalIstanbul University Journal of Women’s Studies
Volume26
Issue number1
Early online date28 Apr 2023
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 28 Apr 2023

Bibliographical note

The journal is an open access journal and all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Except for commercial purposes, users are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

The open access articles in the journal are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Keywords

  • Flamenco
  • Dancer
  • Francisco Franco
  • Spain
  • Carmen
  • Tourism development

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Moving past Franco’s Art and Censorship: The case of the female Flamenco dancer'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this