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BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Season 1 • Episode 2 • The Repression
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BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America Season 1, Episode 2: The Repression
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. Watch BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America Season 1, Episode 2 The Repression in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America Season 1, Episode 2 and share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Episodes
6 episodes
The Rebellion
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.
45 min
The Repression
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.
52 min
Music in Color
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.
48 min
Rock in Our Own Language
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
46 min
One Continent
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same with Colombian beats and sounds.
55 min
A New Era
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and rap and new female rockers.
51 min