La intervención del primer franquismo sobre la fiesta popular: una aproximación a través del caso asturiano (1937-1945)

Abstract

The intervention in the festive calendar is a linchpin of the strategy designed by the Franco regime in order to improve its control over the Spanish population. Such intervention, amply studied through the great national celebrations, demands new contributions about the atom of the Spanish festive network: the local popular feast. This article pretends to contribute to the knowledge of the attitude of the Regime towards the local festive leisure of the Spanish people, through the image projected by the Asturian case and making use of the suggestive contributions offered by the Sociology and Anthropology of leisure and feast.