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The mission of the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology is to sustain and facilitate engagement with diverse musical cultures through research education programming and curation. We are a New Orleansbased 501c3 nonprofit committed to fostering engagement with the arts and addressing the crises of continuity faced by marginalized musical cultures through openaccess resources and free public events in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Programs The Louisiana Decima Project The Louisiana Decima Project is a music sustainability program focused on curating reviving and sustaining the Isleo decima unique tradition of Spanish folk songs from St. Bernard Parish Louisiana.