BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

Name: BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Released: 2020-12-16
Rating: 7.6

2020 · 50m · TMDB 7.6/10 (75 votes)

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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About BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

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

Status: Ended
TMDB rating: 7.6/10 from 75 votes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6

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S1 E1Dec 16, 202045 min

The Rebellion

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.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

S1 E2Dec 16, 202052 min

The Repression

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.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

S1 E3Dec 16, 202048 min

Music in Color

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.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

S1 E4Dec 16, 202046 min

Rock in Our Own Language

Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes

S1 E5Dec 16, 202055 min

One Continent

Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.

TMDB 10.0/10 from 1 votes