BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

Miniseries

6 episodes · Dec 16, 2020

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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  • The Rebellion
    S1E1

    The Rebellion

    Dec 16, 202045m

    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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  • The Repression
    S1E2

    The Repression

    Dec 16, 202052m

    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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  • Music in Color
    S1E3

    Music in Color

    Dec 16, 202048m

    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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  • Rock in Our Own Language
    S1E4

    Rock in Our Own Language

    Dec 16, 202046m

    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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  • One Continent
    S1E5

    One Continent

    Dec 16, 202055m

    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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  • A New Era
    S1E6

    A New Era

    Dec 16, 202051m

    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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