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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Tom Uribes

May 9, 2003

(559) 278-5366 or 250-8459

Ethnomusicologist To Speak At Chicano Alumni ‘Second Saturday’ Lunch Saturday (May 10)

Ethnomusicologist Dr. Manuel Pena, a Fresno State music professor, will be the featured guest at the Chicano Alumni Association “Second Saturday” luncheon on tomorrow (May 10) at Beto's Restaurant in Fresno.

The monthly, informal lunch social is from 11 am to 1 p.m. at Beto's Restaurant in Fresno (4770 E. Clinton) on the corner of Chestnut. It is free and open to the public. Lunch menu is no-host.

Peña received his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Texas, with an emphasis on the ethnomusicology of the Hispanic Southwest. He has written three books on the music of the Mexican Americans: The Texas-Mexican Conjunto (University of Texas Press, 1985), which won third place in the prestigious Chicago Folklore Prize competition; Música Tejana (Texas A&M Press, Mexican American Studies, U of H, 1999), and The Mexican American Orquesta (University of Texas Press, 1999), which won a prize from the Southwest Librarians Association. 

Peña is currently conducting research on Mexican art music, and he is also completing an auto-ethnography, “Where the Ox Does Not Plow.”

Ion addition to Fresno State, Peña was a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas and in the fall of 2001, he was a Presidential Scholar at the University of Michigan.

The Second Saturday locations are rotated each month in support of alumni and Hispanic businesses, said Manuel Olgin, president of the Chicano Alumni Association established more than 25 years ago.

For more information, call Olgín at (559) 278-2999 or 871-0583.

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