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In Latin America, the 1970s left very complicated memories for most people. All the countries from the south of the continent were ruled by violent dictatorships strongly based on ideology. In Buenos Aires, the last dictatorship was also a fertile period of musical creativity. Most of the bands known today as legends flourished and grew despite the ongoing repression. The aim of this paper is to provide a view of what rock music represented during Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976–1983) in terms of collective identification and political construction.