On Sound Study, Xandão will follow unexpected resonances, feedback, and musical migration around the world. Tune in for situated listening, original field recordings, and occasional interviews with guest DJs, artists, and scholars.

Artist-scholar-producer, Alex E. Chávez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies. His research explores articulations of Latinx sounds and aurality in relation to race, place-making, and the intimacies that bind lives across physical and cultural borders. He is the author of the multi-award-winning book Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke University Press, 2017)—recipient of the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology (2018). And in 2016 he produced the Smithsonian Folkways album Serrano de Corázon (Highlander at Heart).

He has consistently crossed the boundary between performer and ethnographer in the realms of academic research and publicly engaged work as an artist and producer. Chávez has recorded and toured with his own music projects, composed documentary scores (including Emmy Award-winning El Despertar [2016]), and collaborated with Grammy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated artists, including members of Quetzal, the Black Pumas, Antibalas, and Grupo Fantasma. He is currently on tour with Dos Santos, a Chicago-based alt-Latinx band which recently released City of Mirrors (2021).

TRACKLIST:
Grupo Fantasma – Por Que
Money Chicha – Echo en Mexico
Dos Santos & Money Chicha – Undercover
Dos Santos – City of Mirrors
Dos Santos – Shot in the Dark
Guillermo Velázquez – Saludo y Pinto Mi Raya
Yanga – El Lobo
La Redada – Ábrete Sésamo
Bocaraca – Cahuita
La Solucion Feat. Mongo Santamaria – Mozambique
Bwana Tambula – La Justicia de Chicago
Reyna Tropical – Niña