BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

Synopsis

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

First Air Date: 2020-12-16

Last Air Date: 2020-12-16

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Created By: Nicolás Entel

Networks: Netflix

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Top Cast

Gustavo Santaolalla as Self
Rubén Albarrán as Self
Fito Páez as Self
Andrea Echeverri as Self
Andrés Calamaro as Self
Charly García as Self
Alex Lora as Self
Billy Bond as Self
Ricardo Mollo as Self
Roberto Musso as Self

Seasons

Miniseries (2020)

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

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Rebellion (2020-12-16)

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.
Ep. 2: The Repression (2020-12-16)

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.
Ep. 3: Music in Color (2020-12-16)

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.
Ep. 4: Rock in Our Own Language (2020-12-16)

Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
Ep. 5: One Continent (2020-12-16)

Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
Ep. 6: A New Era (2020-12-16)

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