"During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Sección Femenina of the Falange - led by Pilar Primo de Rivera from its creation in 1934 until Franco's death in 1975 - played a pivotal role in organizing the Francoist home front, with responsibility for nursing wounded soldiers and for the distribution of clothing and food among civilians. In 1938, its role expanded to encompass a culture department, whose appointed tasks were to include the conservation of "authentic Spanish folklore." Coros y Danzas groups, formed in all provinces, were to rescue - through field work - dances that were supposedly near-forgotten, and to revitalize them through performance in front of gradually growing..."