Famed Author and Mexican Rock Historian has not only endorsed our film for Colleges and Universities. He also has created the Liner notes for our Soundtrack.
We wish to thank Eric for all his support .

Liner Notes: “Rock ’n’ Roll Made in Mexico”

When Elvis Presley and company burst onto the musical scene in 1950s America, it wasn't only the cultural landscape on this side of the border that was forever changed. Brought back in the suitcases of Mexican tourists and on the wings of transnational capital, rock 'n’ roll (and later, rock) also had a dramatic influence on Mexican youth. By the early 1960s, scores of bands had appeared, many with Anglicized names such as Los Sparks and Los Hooligans. Most performed cover versions (refritos) of the imported original, but the songs that were wholly original, while few and far between, became instant hits. By the mid 1960s, Mexico boasted a homegrown countercultural movement linked simultaneously to the counterculture abroad and to a musically diverse and vibrant scene locally. Called “La Onda Chicana” (The Chicano Wave), this rock counterculture peaked in the fall of 1971 at the Avándaro music festival, when over 200,000 youth from across the social spectrum gathered to experience two days of music, freedom, and desmadre—the subversion of social boundaries of propriety—before being forced underground in the face of state repression, leftist denunciations of cultural imperialism, and pending middle-class economic collapse. Today, Mexico is in the vanguard of the rock en español movement, yet few recall the earlier stages of the country’s rock evolution, from the pioneering performances of Gloria Ríos (Mexico’s rock’n roll diva) and Los Locos del Ritmo, to the heavy blues of Javier Batiz and the Máquina del Sonido. Rock ‘n’ Roll Made in Mexico is a terrific point of entry into a forgotten past of Mexican musical culture, uniting in one disk some of the best of Mexico’s original rock ‘n’ roll and rock from the era. The stereotype of Mexico as a “land of mariachis” dies hard, but this collection will surely help seal that fate.

Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College
Author, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (1999)
Co-editor, Rockin’ Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America (2004)