BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
TV-MA • Documentary • Series • 2020 • 1 season
Starring: Gustavo Santaolalla, Rubén Albarrán, Fito Páez
Created by: Nicolás Entel
S1 E1 - 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.
Dec 16, 2020 • 45m
S1 E2 - 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.
Dec 16, 2020 • 52m
S1 E3 - 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.
Dec 16, 2020 • 48m
S1 E4 - 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.
Dec 16, 2020 • 46m
S1 E5 - 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.
Dec 16, 2020 • 55m
S1 E6 - 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.
Dec 16, 2020 • 51m
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BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
TV-MA • Documentary • TV Series • 2020
