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BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America — Miniseries

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

Episodes

  • E01 The Rebellion

    ★ 10.0

    Dec 16, 2020 · 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.

  • E02 The Repression

    ★ 10.0

    Dec 16, 2020 · 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.

  • E03 Music in Color

    ★ 10.0

    Dec 16, 2020 · 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.

  • E04 Rock in Our Own Language

    ★ 10.0

    Dec 16, 2020 · 46m

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

  • E05 One Continent

    ★ 10.0

    Dec 16, 2020 · 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.

  • E06 A New Era

    ★ 10.0

    Dec 16, 2020 · 51m

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