From Dictatorship to Democracy in Spain
The Iconography of Motorcyclist Angel Nieto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12217840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa González Aja (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 240-252 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2011.537913 |
| OpenAlex | W2035935759 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Motorcycling in Spain was a minority sport from its very inception. However, the emergence of certain personalities, especially Angel Nieto, and their subsequent successes attracted the attention of high-ranking government officials who began to take an interest in it. Relatively quickly they identified the sport as a convenient method of advancing propaganda for the regime. The iconography associated with a sports hero, someone who began with nothing only to overcome great suffering and attain fame and recognition through sheer willpower, carried considerable symbolic resonance. Such sporting stars represented a set of values that state departments considered useful, and for which they did not hesitate to use both the press and even educational institutions to advance a relationship, as they saw it, between success in motor sport and the well-being of the nation. The subsequent emergence of a democratic system of government in Spain brought with it considerable levels of freedom, which in turn would have a profound impact on sport, including motorcycle racing. It would allow circuits to be built, foreign bikes to be imported into the country and a new type of sports star to emerge, one who now owed his/her success not alone to his/her own efforts but also to the considerable sporting infrastructures that existed in the ‘new’ Spain
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |