From Punk to Perreo: 30 Must See Latin Music Documentaries
We all know that there’s a lot more to Latin music than just salsa and narcocorridos. There are as many genres and styles of music played throughout Latin America as as there are slang words for money or beer — maybe more. The mainstream music industry in the United States and your run-of-the-mill gringo neighbor may not know this but for us here, at Remezcla, that’s our pan con mantequilla. So, when we tried to put together a list of music documentaries we purposely focused on diversity, trying to include as many genres as we could in this limited space. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of uncharted territory, local sub-genres, emerging scenes, and whole countries with rich musical traditions that still don’t have a decent documentary to represent them. So, this is in no way a definitive list and we secretly hope it will motivate young filmmakers to go out with their cameras and expose the truly heterogeneous nature of our music.