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BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

7.6(73 votes)
2020

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Episodes

The Rebellion

1. The Rebellion

Latin America's rock movement was sparked by Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" and the Beatles but found its own voice in youth and resistance to dictatorship.

The Repression

2. The Repression

When the band Peace and Love began chanting, "We got the power!" at the first rock festival in Mexico in 1971, the government responded by banning rock.

Music in Color

3. Music in Color

After the fall of the Argentine dictatorship in 1983 and the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, rock explodes with ingenuity. And it's all in Spanish.

Rock in Our Own Language

4. Rock in Our Own Language

Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.

One Continent

5. One Continent

Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.

A New Era

6. A New Era

Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.

Overview

Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.

Details

Genres

Documentary

Language

ES

First Air Date

2020-12-16

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

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Cast

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla

Rubén Albarrán

Rubén Albarrán

Fito Páez

Fito Páez

Andrea Echeverri

Andrea Echeverri

Andrés Calamaro

Andrés Calamaro

Charly García

Charly García

Alex Lora

Alex Lora

Billy Bond

Billy Bond

Ricardo Mollo

Ricardo Mollo

Roberto Musso

Roberto Musso