The Culture Industry in Spain during the Sixties

Abstract

Spanish society underwent significant transformations in the 1960s. The economic expansion that took place in that decade was the catalyst which enabled the development of greater cultural production and thus the phenomenon known as "mass culture", which has been implanted in the West for years. The great repression used by the dictatorship, the increasing, but still small, capacity for consumption of large sections of the population and the desire to maintain ideological support for the regime at a time of profound change are important elements that came together in these years and were to give way to a social reality very different from that from which they came, especially in cultural change.