BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
TV-MA
7.6
2020
Documentary
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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- Cast：
- Gustavo Santaolalla , Rubén Albarrán , Fito Páez , Andrea Echeverri , Andrés Calamaro , Charly García , Alex Lora
Episode 6 : A New Era
December. 16,2020
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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Episode 5 : One Continent
December. 16,2020
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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Episode 4 : Rock in Our Own Language
December. 16,2020
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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Episode 3 : Music in Color
December. 16,2020
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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Episode 2 : The Repression
December. 16,2020
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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Episode 1 : The Rebellion
December. 16,2020
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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