BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America (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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- Country: AR, CO, MX, UY
- Language: English | Español
- Runtime: 50
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Episode 1 - The Rebellion
Release Date: 2020-12-16Latin 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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Episode 2 - The Repression
Release Date: 2020-12-16When 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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Episode 3 - Music in Color
Release Date: 2020-12-16After 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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Episode 4 - Rock in Our Own Language
Release Date: 2020-12-16Argentina'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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Episode 5 - One Continent
Release Date: 2020-12-16Mexico'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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Episode 6 - A New Era
Release Date: 2020-12-16Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.