The Patronato de Misiones Pedagógicas, the Frente de Juventudes and the Sección Femenina: key institutions in the history of Spanish music education in primary schools

Abstract

Music education in Spain was regulated and structured in the late twentieth century by means of the Educational Act LOGSE (1990) although, previously, there were several attempts to start an educational musicality among children and youth. In the following pages we show a brief but clarifying, context of educational legislation about music education produced during the twentieth century focused primarily on the Spanish primary education.The main objective of this article is to highlight the performances of acculturation and music education carried out during the first third of the last century. For that, we want to emphasize the great innovation that even on a European level was carried out, on the one hand, by the Patronato de Misiones Pedagógicas, driven by the second Spanish Republic, under the ideology of Free Institution of Education and on the other hand, by the Sección Femenina, with a decisive role played by both itinerant chairs and the professorships Jose Antonio and the Frente de Juventudes, sponsored by the Franco dictatorship.We used as a research method the analysis of information, maintaining objectivity and accuracy in our interpretations showed.

Keywords

• educación musical
• misiones pedagógicas
• frente de juventudes
• sección femenina
• cátedras ambulantes.