La vida musical en el buque Sinaia: Construcciones de sentido en torno a la Banda del Quinto Regimiento de Milicias Populares en el proceso de exilio a México

Abstract

This article presents research on the Banda del Quinto Regimiento de Milicias Populares, the band of the Republican Army's Fifth Regiment of Popular Militias during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) that reinvented itself as the Banda Madrid while it proceeded toward exile in Mexico. I analyze documentation contained in Sinaia: Diario de la primera expedición de republicanos españoles a México, a daily newsletter published on board the ship Sinaia, as well as interviews preserved in the collection “Fondo de historia oral: Refugiados españoles en México,” housed at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. Through examination of communication media and analysis of discourse, my study aims to illuminate the meanings constructed around this musical ensemble during its voyage to Mexico aboard the Sinaia.