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BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America: Miniseries
December 16, 2020
6 Episodes
~45 min per episode
Overview
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
Episodes
6
1
The Rebellion
Dec 16, 2020
45 min
5.0/5
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.
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2
The Repression
Dec 16, 2020
52 min
5.0/5
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.
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3
Music in Color
Dec 16, 2020
48 min
5.0/5
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.
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4
Rock in Our Own Language
Dec 16, 2020
46 min
5.0/5
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
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5
One Continent
Dec 16, 2020
55 min
5.0/5
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
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6
A New Era
Dec 16, 2020
51 min
5.0/5
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.
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