Institute for Public Ethnomusicology

04/22/2026

Check out the trailer for our new ethnographic documentary on the mozambique, featuring Dile Que NOLA and debuting at IPE on May 9th! https://www.facebook.com/share/1KmxtQHDnu/

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01/30/2026

Join us for the first installment of the IPE Film Screening Series!
We'll watch the recently recovered documentary film, the Season Before Spring (2006), documenting the 2006 Carnival season, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Free and Open to the Public.

06/07/2025

We're pleased to announce our award of a Culture Care Fund grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, supporting our general operating expenses, as well as a new program grant from the Society of American Archivists, which will support our work developing language revitalization resources for Louisiana Spanish with materials from our digital sound archive ( https://ldp.reclaim.hosting/ ).

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12/10/2024

It's not too late to sign up for our mailing list in time to receive our upcoming newsletter (due out later this month).

We'll highlight our recent grant award from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation in support of the Louisiana Décima Project, our work with both the Jazz & Heritage Foundation and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to develop our digital library of Spanish folk songs from St. Bernard Parish and educational and cultural programming based on this tradition, and our upcoming lecture/performance series with the Cuban folkloric musician Leandro Moré.

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08/16/2024

We're excited to share that we've received a Rebirth grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities for the Louisiana Décima Project. This $5,000 award will support the expansion of our digital library of Spanish folk songs from Louisiana, as well as community outreach efforts with researchers and Isleño culture bearers.

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07/29/2024

Executive director Will Buckingham will be talking about primary source literacy and the Louisiana Décima Project at the NOLA Information Literacy Forum tomorrow. Be sure to register in advance and tune in!

Please join us at this year's NOLA ILC forum.
Registration is free! Check out our speakers and our in person event information at https://nolailc.wordpress.com/

06/10/2024

Our executive director, Will Buckingham, was featured in the current issue of the Southwestern Archivist! Will was awarded a grant of $600 from the Society of Southwest Archivists to travel to Montreal in March, where he gave a talk on the Louisiana Décima Project at the American Comparative Literature Association.

https://societyofsouthwestarchivists.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Newsletters/SWA2024v47no2-May.pdf

05/14/2024

Check out our inaugural newsletter!

It’s been a very busy year so far at the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology. With $7,000 in grant funds and over $650 in private donations received last year, our priority has been on putting those funds to work on our two grant programs and building some basic infrastructure to support our work...

05/02/2024

Check out this feature on our Executive Director, Will Buckingham, from the NOLA Information Literacy Collective, where he serves on the executive committee.

Our next member of the Executive Board is a very busy person. Meet Will Buckingham, a Teaching Assistant in LSU's School of Information Studies, an Adjunct Librarian at Delgado Community College, and the Executive Director at the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology. He's current reading Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community, by John P. Clark, and rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1.

Will says, "As a new member of the executive committee I love how welcoming and supportive this community is, and their interest in inclusivity across different professions and fields related to information literacy".