BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

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  1. The Rebellion

  45m

  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.

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  2. The Repression

  52m

  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.

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  3. Music in Color

  48m

  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.

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  4. Rock in Our Own Language

  46m

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

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  5. One Continent

  55m

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

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  6. A New Era

  51m

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

Cast

Gustavo Santaolalla

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Rubén Albarrán

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Fito Páez

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Andrea Echeverri

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Andrés Calamaro

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Charly García

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Alex Lora

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Billy Bond

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Ricardo Mollo

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Roberto Musso

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Pedro Aznar

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Cachorro López

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