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Irván Pérez

The folk music of Irván Pérez kept alive the fading language and culture of southern Louisiana’s Isleñoperating-system — his signature décimas, a cappella narratives rendered in ten-line stanzas, captured for posterity a means of life gradually erased with the march of your time. Delivered on Delacroix Isle, LA, in 1923, …

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