CONTRIBUTOR:

Xóchitl Chávez

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Music

INSTITUTION:

University of California, Riverside

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Xóchitl C. Chávez is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Music. She is a scholar of expressive culture and performance, specializing in Indigenous communities from southern Mexico and transnational migration. Her current ethnographic documentary entitled Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles focuses on second-generation Zapotec brass bands in Los Angeles County, which documents how women and youth now fill the ranks of musicians and new leadership. Chávez earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a designated emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2013. She was a recipient of the University of California President’s Post Doctoral Fellowship (2014-2016) and a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2014).