S01 Episode 1
The Rebellion
Latin America's rock movement is sparked by Ritchie Valen's "La Bamba" and the Beatles but finds its own voice in youth and resistance to dictatorship.
45 mins · Wed, 16 Dec 2020
S01 Episode 2
The Repression
Peace and Love band members begin chanting "We got the power!" at Mexico's first rock festival in 1971, prompting the government to ban rock and roll music.
52 mins · Wed, 16 Dec 2020
S01 Episode 3
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.
47 mins · Wed, 16 Dec 2020
S01 Episode 4
Rock in Our Own Language
Argentina's Soda Stereo is the first all-hemispheric hit-making rock band, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from Pinochet's Chile.
45 mins · Wed, 16 Dec 2020
S01 Episode 5
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 mins · Wed, 16 Dec 2020
S01 Episode 6
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 mins · Wed, 16 Dec 2020
