La Peña proudly invites you to a book signing pachanga in honor of University of Texas at Austin alumnus Alex E. Chávez’s new book, SOUNDS OF CROSSING Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

Introduction by José E. Limon
(Faculty Emeritus, UT Austin & University of Notre Dame)

Photo Exhibit: “El Destino: Musical Lives Across Borders”

Book Talk & Book Signing

Reception to Follow

Music by El Tallercito del Son SATX

OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC

About Alex E. Chávez

Ethnographer-composer-academic-musician, Dr. Alex E. Chávez is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Assistant Professor of Anthropology and a faculty fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching explore Latina/o/x expressive culture in everyday life as manifest through sound, language, and performance. He has consistently crossed the boundary between performer and ethnographer in the realms of both academic research and publicly engaged work as an artist and producer. In 2016, he produced the Smithsonian Folkways album Serrano de Corazón. An accomplished musician and multi-instrumentalist, Dr. Chávez has recorded and toured with his own music projects, composed musical scores for Emmy Award-winning documentaries, and has collaborated with acclaimed and Grammy Award-winning artists. Dr. Chávez is a founding member of Maneja Beto and Mitote, two musical ensembles that energized the music scene during his time in Austin.

Should you have any questions, please call 512-477-6007

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018 • 4:00 PM

CENTER FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PRESENTS

Verses and Flows: Migrant Lives and the Sounds of Crossing

Lecture by Alex E. Chávez

Gordon-White Building, Multipurpose Space 2.206

University of Texas at Austin