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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: Gustavo Santaolalla, Rubén Albarrán, Fito Páez, Andrea Echeverri, Andrés Calamaro, Charly García, Alex Lora, Billy Bond, Ricardo Mollo

Creator: Nicolás Entel

Country: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 50m

Release:

Rating: 7.6

1 "The Rebellion"

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."

2 "The Repression"

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."

3 "Music in Color"

2020-12-16

"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."

4 "Rock in Our Own Language"

2020-12-16

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

5 "One Continent"

2020-12-16

"Mexico's Caf\u00e9 Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds."

6 "A New Era"

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."