From the Estado Novo to the Nuevo Estado: Music, Press and Propaganda in the Relations between Portugal and Seville during the Spanish Civil War

Abstract

The present article focuses on the musical relations established during the Spanish Civil War between Antonio de Oliveira Salazar’s Estado Novo and Seville. The Spanish city was captured by the Nationalist faction at the beginning of the military conflict that not only wiped out hundreds of thousands of people, but forms of culture, ways of thinking and ideologies that were drastically replaced by those imposed by the Nuevo Estado. During the conflict, a series of initiatives were put into place in both Portugal and the Andalusian capital that will be analysed by examining the fundamental role that music played in the creation of bonds of friendship between the Salazar dictatorship and the new Franco Regime that was taking shape.