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.
Cast
Gustavo Santaolalla
Self
Rubén Albarrán
Self
Fito Páez
Self
Andrea Echeverri
Self
Andrés Calamaro
Self
Charly García
Self
Alex Lora
Self
Billy Bond
Self
Ricardo Mollo
Self
Roberto Musso
Self
Pedro Aznar
Self
Cachorro López
Self
Mavi Díaz
Self
Pil Trafa
Self
Zeta Bosio
Self
Seasons
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this 50-year history of Latin American rock through dictatorships, disasters and dissent.
E1The Rebellion
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.
E2The Repression
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.
E3Music in Color
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.
E4Rock in Our Own Language
Dec 16, 2020
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
E5One Continent
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.
E6A New Era
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.
Storyline
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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