Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America

  • Premiered: Dec 2020
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • Netflix
  • Unknown
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
The Rebellion
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 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.
1x2
The Repression
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 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.
1x3
Music in Color
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 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.
1x4
Rock in Our Own Language
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 16, 2020
Argentina's Soda Stereo were the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
1x5
One Continent
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 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.
1x6 Show finale
A New Era
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 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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