Category: Latin rock
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The Brazilian rock scene is perhaps the least known — and most surprising — chapter in the whole history of Latin American rock. It was born in a country with a musical tradition so rich and layered that it seems almost impermeable to the electric guitar: samba, bossa nova, MPB, baião. And yet rock in…
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In no other country in Latin America has Argentine rock carried the cultural weight it has carried in Argentina. It is no exaggeration to say that, from the 1960s onwards, rock nacional has been one of the most powerful forces in the country’s cultural and social history. It accompanied the resistance to the dictatorship, it…
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C’è un universo musicale enorme e ancora troppo poco conosciuto in Italia che attraversa un intero continente. Si chiama rock latinoamericano, e si estende dal Messico alla Patagonia passando per Ande, Caraibi e Amazzonia. Non è un genere omogeneo: è una costellazione di scene, lingue, tensioni politiche e identità culturali che hanno usato la chitarra…