We continue with the celebrations for the 70 years of Argentine rock, with a series of posts where we go in detail through each stage of its history, from its beginning in 1956 until this 2026. In this chapter 1, we will learn about highlighted artists, songs, and trends in Argentine rock from 1956 to 1960. First we need to learn the context in which Argentine rock was born In the '50s, on the Argentine music scene there were two main types of orchestras: orquestas típicas (which played national music such as tango, folklore and milonga) and orquestas características (which played international music such as jazz, blues, mambo, bolero, pasodoble, tarantella and soundtracks). It was in the latter ones that Argentine rock was born. There were also differences in approaches. Orquestas típicas only played acoustic instruments, whereas características were allowed to incorporate the new electric instruments.…