BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

Episode 01

The Rebellion

Dec 16, 2020 · 45 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 02

The Repression

Dec 16, 2020 · 52 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 03

Music in Color

Dec 16, 2020 · 48 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 04

Rock in Our Own Language

Dec 16, 2020 · 46 min

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

Episode 05

One Continent

Dec 16, 2020 · 55 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.

Episode 06

A New Era

Dec 16, 2020 · 51 min

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