214:. Near the end of 1933, Michel returned from the Soviet Union and re-signed with SEP's Cultural Missions program as a "rural organizer". Her plans were to help women gain land independently from their fathers or husbands, so that women's collectives could farm them for subsistence. She was not a feminist, though later activists would claim her as a proto-feminist, as she believed in working within the system of Mexican gender. She felt that men's endorsement and collaboration with women's projects were vital to their success. In any case, her vocal disagreement with the communist party on women's issues led to her expulsion from the party in 1933. Concha's response was to publish a pamphlet
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Fernando Cásares. Michel placed the child in a foundling home so that she could work. Her daughter contracted bronchial pneumonia and died when she was seventeen months old. While still in mourning, Concha married a German-Austrian man who was twenty years her senior, Pablo Rieder, with whom
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Institute of Folklore in Michoacan and was one of the first collectors of folklore and preservers of the traditions of the Mexican people. She was a cultural icon having relationships with two presidents, and a broad range of Mexico's most prominent artists including
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In addition to her own song-writing, Concha wrote ten plays. As Michel traveled the country with
Cardenas, she gathered indigenous songs and collected some 5,000 works, though she struggled to find interest in publishing them. In 1951, part of her collection
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sent her a reply that he would grant her another hacienda for founding a training center. The next several years were devoted to women's issues, as Concha helped reorganize the defunct Women's
Revolutionary Institute, began serving as secretary for the
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where her father was engaged in trade with seafaring ships. She was a precocious child and her parents sent her at the age of seven to school at the
Convento de San Ignacio de Loyola, which her grandfather had built in the village of
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and others. The themes running throughout the art in this period exalt socialism and communism, workers, and allusions to indigenous culture like bandoliers, flags, guitars, hands, machetes, peasants and opposing classism.
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to the largely uneducated public. Leftist artists saw this encouragement as a means of producing art heavily reflecting communist ideology. Michel provided the vocal accompaniment to the visual records left by the
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nothing. Calles's guards removed the women while Concha was negotiating with him. While unsuccessful, it gained her support of policymakers and Calles's successor,
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Amor en las sombras, novela original, adaptada para el cine, (1944).
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Guanajuato : la ciudad de la belleza acrecentada, (1968).
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Obras cortas de teatro revolucionario y popular, (1931)
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