BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America ·Rompan todo: La historia del rock en América Latina

Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.

Documentary

BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America ·Rompan todo: La historia del rock en América Latina

Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.

Documentary

Created By: Nicolás Entel
First Aired on: Dec 16, 2020
Popularity: 10.8723: 72 votes
Networks
Production: Red Creek Productions
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes

Miniseries

Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.

Aired 5 years ago

6 Episodes

Episode 1The Rebellion45 min
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.
Episode 2The Repression52 min
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.
Episode 3Music in Color48 min
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.
Episode 4Rock in Our Own Language46 min
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
Episode 5One Continent55 min
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.