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Alexandro D. Hern谩ndez is an Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at 好色先生, Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles. Dr. Hern谩ndez is an active performer of punk and Mexican traditional music, is a founding member of artcore punk band 隆Aparato! (IG: ) and El Mariachi Manchester (a mariachi tribute to Morrissey and The Smiths) and has shared the stage with celebrated indigenous artists Buffy Sainte-Marie and DJ Shub. He has collaborated with quintessential Chicano rock band Los Lobos and is a featured musician on Jos茅 Lu铆s Orozco's Grammy-nominated Smithsonian Folkways release 隆Come bien! Eat Right!. His research on the son jarocho is featured on National Public Radio鈥檚 Alt.Latino: and his music has reached NPR's "Top 100 Songs" list. Hern谩ndez received a PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA, is a Smithsonian predoctoral and postdoctoral Fellow and is published in the anthology Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism, The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Smithsonian Folkways and on the upcoming reader Decolonizing Education Through Music.