BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America - Season 1

BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America - Season 1

First aired: 12/16/2020 6 episodes

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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Episodes

Episode 1

1. The Rebellion

Aired: 12/16/2020

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.

Episode 2

2. The Repression

Aired: 12/16/2020

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.

Episode 3

3. Music in Color

Aired: 12/16/2020

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.

Episode 4

4. Rock in Our Own Language

Aired: 12/16/2020

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

Episode 5

5. One Continent

Aired: 12/16/2020

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

Episode 6

6. A New Era

Aired: 12/16/2020

Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.