BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

Season 12020

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

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6 Episodes

E01 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.

December 16, 2020

E02 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.

December 16, 2020

E03 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.

December 16, 2020

E04 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.

December 16, 2020

E05 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.

December 16, 2020

E06 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.

December 16, 2020

BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

E01 The Rebellion

E02 The Repression

E03 Music in Color

E04 Rock in Our Own Language

E05 One Continent

E06 A New Era

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E01 The Rebellion

E02 The Repression

E03 Music in Color

E04 Rock in Our Own Language

E05 One Continent

E06 A New Era