BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Miniseries
20206 episodes
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
Episodes
E1The Rebellion
10.02020-12-16 · 45m
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.
E2The Repression
10.02020-12-16 · 52m
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.
E3Music in Color
10.02020-12-16 · 48m
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.
E4Rock in Our Own Language
10.02020-12-16 · 46m
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
E5One Continent
10.02020-12-16 · 55m
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
E6A New Era
10.02020-12-16 · 51m
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.