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.

Genre: Documentary,

Actor:

Creator: Nicolás Entel,

Country: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay,

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 50 minutes

Release: 2020-12-16

Rating: 7.6

Season 1 - BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
2020-12-16
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.
2020-12-16
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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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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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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Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
2020-12-16
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.