scholarly journals Gernikaren itzalpean: Propaganda, Appropriation, and Depoliticisation of Basque Art Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Besada ◽  
Ainara Zubizarreta
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Factions ◽  
Vivid Memories ◽  
The Town

The Bombing of Guernica stands as the best-known war crime during the Spanish Civil War. The town symbolically representing the Basque essences was destroyed by a German-Italian air raid lasting over three hours, and almost two hundred people were killed. Unfortunately, this abominable event remains contentious among disparate political factions, sometimes upholding its memory by means of tailor-made interpretations.As music often performs a political role within conflicts, particularly those involving violence, it is not surprising that the Bombing of Guernica has inspired several compositions of art music. Among them, we study three works by Basque composers, namely Pablo Sorozábal, Francisco Escudero, and Ramon Lazkano. Each case study respectively stands, politically speaking, as a propagandistic event, a musical appropriation, and a collateral depoliticization of the vivid memories around the war crime.

Studying Desertion in the spanish Civil War

Desertion ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Théodore McLauchlin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Armed Group ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Group Characteristics

This chapter develops the account of desertion primarily in the context of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, which clarifies the role of several variables through Spain. It looks at many different organizations on both the rebel side and the Republican side in order to examine the impact of different armed group characteristics on desertion. It uses the Spain case study to understand desertion dynamics in a particularly fascinating civil conflict. The chapter focuses on the Republican side, analyzing the dynamics of its relatively high rate of desertion at various points in the conflict. It demonstrates norms of cooperation and coercion at the micro level to statistically assess individual soldiers' decisions to fight or to flee.

Volunteers for Anarchy: The International Group of the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War

2020 ◽  
pp. 002200942094992
Author(s):  
Morris Brodie
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
International Group ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hostile Attitude

This article explores the twin phenomena of anti-fascism and transnational war volunteering through a case study of the International Group of the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War. This anarchist-led unit comprised approximately 368 volunteers with a variety of political views from at least 25 different countries. The article examines the relationship between these foreign volunteers and their Spanish hosts (both anarchist and non-anarchist), through, firstly, the militarization of the militias in the winter of 1936, and, secondly, the group’s role in the May Days of 1937 and its aftermath. These episodes show the often hostile attitude of Spaniards to foreigners within Spain and challenge the characterization of the conflict as distinctively internationalist. The lives of these volunteers also highlight the continuity of anti-fascism between the interwar and wartime period, with Spain acting as an ‘anti-fascist melting pot’ where volunteers of different backgrounds and political leanings came together in a common cause. This commitment, however, was not unconditional, and was frequently challenged due to circumstances within Spain. Through studying these transnational fighters, we have a more comprehensive understanding of the complex nature of twentieth century anti-fascism.

scholarly journals Ambassadeurs op het sportfront : Sport, politiek en diplomatie tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (1936-1939)

2021 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-658
Author(s):  
Enrico Castro Montes
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Sports History ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Ambassadors on the Sports Front: Sports, Politics and Diplomacy during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)This article examines the role of sports in the international politics and diplomacy of nation states in wartime. Through a case study on public diplomacy during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), this article shows how sport could influence international public opinion. By focussing on some lesser-known international sporting events from this period, such as the 1937 Labour Olympiad in Antwerp, this article will move away from the dominant focus in sports history on mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Although research about the relationship between sports and diplomacy has grown in recent years, it has barely taken into account the influence of a war context on sport and diplomacy. This article attempts to fill this gap by analysing left-wing Belgian and Spanish newspapers, archives of the Belgian workers' sports movement, and unused source material from the FIFA archive.

Scots and the Spanish Civil War

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fraser Raeburn
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Many ◽  
Scottish Politics ◽  
At Home

Few causes before or since have inspired such passion, determination and sacrifice than the Spanish Civil War (1936-9). This book explores the many ways in which Scots responded to the war in Spain, covering the activists and humanitarians who raised funds and awareness at home, as well as the hundreds of Scots who journeyed to Spain to fight as part of the International Brigades that fought for the Republican cause. Their stories reflect much larger narratives of the rise of European fascism, the networks and cultures of international communism and the wider modern phenomenon of transnational foreign war volunteering. Scots and the Spanish Civil War is a groundbreaking study of Scottish involvement in one of the 20th century’s most famous and divisive conflicts, drawing on newly-declassified government documents and international archives in Spain and beyond. As well as shedding new light on Scottish politics in the 1930s, it is argued that this case study – part of the largest wave of foreign war volunteers in the 20th century – can help us understand other such mobilisations, past and present.

Force and the city: occupying and controlling Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Alejandro Pérez-Olivares
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

Abstract For some years, the historiography on Francoist violence has engaged with debates developed by European scholars on the importance of citizen collaboration in authoritarian regimes. In some cases, denunciations made by ‘ordinary men’ have been quantified to establish the extent of violence in everyday life, without taking other qualitative criteria into account. This article explores the importance of urban criteria such as neighbourhood, sociability and mobility in the scope of Francoist violence, taking the military occupation of Madrid at the end of the Spanish Civil War as a case-study.

scholarly journals Analyzing and Interpreting Lime Burials from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): A Case Study from La Carcavilla Cemetery

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eline M. J. Schotsmans ◽  
Almudena García-Rubio ◽  
Howell G. M. Edwards ◽  
Tasnim Munshi ◽  
Andrew S. Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War

Politics, Networks and Community: Recruitment for the International Brigades Reassessed

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-744
Author(s):  
Fraser Raeburn
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Communist Movement ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Foreign Fighters

Despite decades of scholarship, historians have struggled to explain the decision made by the tens of thousands of volunteers who joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). Recent methodological innovations, particularly the embrace of transnational perspectives, have led to richer appreciations of complex individual motives and circumstances, but have done less to advance general explanations of the phenomenon. Drawing on a Scottish case study, this account argues that while motives may indeed have been highly individual, the context for the decision to enlist was not, with most volunteers coming from within well-defined social and political spheres. The density of recruitment among particular Communist Party networks suggests that far from being an internalised choice, the decision was made alongside and influenced by friends, family and colleagues. The communal nature of this process offers a useful explanation of the scale of recruitment for Spain across contexts, and suggests several specific factors that enabled the international communist movement to mobilise itself on such a large scale compared to other historical contingents of foreign fighters.

L'esilio degli intellettuali spagnoli e tedeschi in Messico: due esperienze a confronto

2009 ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Sebastiaan Faber
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Max Aub

- Between 1939 and 1946 Mexico City became one of the most important centers of attraction for European refugees. Many artists, writers, directors, philosophers and anti-fascist militants coming from Spain and Germany took refuge in the capital of Mexico. The author focuses on these two groups, highlighting common elements and main differences and taking the writer Max Aub and Egon Erwin Kish as an example. Using this as a case study, the essay develops a few methodological considerations on the opportunity to develop comparative studies on exile, overcoming the rigid classification and separation of single national cases.Parole chiave:guerra civile spagnola, esilio, Messico, repubblicani, comunisti, comparazione, storia transnazionale Spanish Civil War, exile, Mexico, Republicans, Communists, comparison, transnational History

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