Fulbright scholar to study gay music in India Washington, Aug 14, 2012, PTI:
An American scholar from the University of California has been granted the prestigious Fullbright-mtvU Scholarship to study music of the gay and lesbian community in India. Jeffrey Roy from the University of California in Los Angeles is currently in post-production of his feature-length documentary film, entitled "Rites of Passage," following the gender transition of an Indo-Muslim transsexual female. The short-film version of the project (already completed) won "Audience Choice - Best Short" at the Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival. Besides English and French Roy knows Hindi and Urdu. The US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and mtvU on announced on Monday the 2012 winners of the Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship to study, for an academic year, aspects of international musical culture in Barbados, Botswana, India and Kosovo. The other three winners are Albulen Shabani (University of Wisconsin) who will study women's musical groups in Kosovo; Katherine Cloutier (Michigan State University) to study community health and music in Barbados and Sebastian Modak (University of Pennsylvania) to study local hip hop and HIV/AIDS awareness in Botswana. In partnership with mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, the Fulbright fellowship uses music to promote mutual understanding. The winners will share their experiences during their Fulbright year via video reports, blogs and podcasts. Email: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay/post?postID=DCvNIbdTv_3_C5j5flK54H ZuyqMJgNC-L4S3BWR464eSfMgGEAMLax1OSqSI6REqIgVM3LQEejINlemMrw> modera...@gaybombay.in E Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay http://groups.google.com/group/Gaybombay http://groups.google.com/group/GayIndia Public archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Rss feed: http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com/maillist.xml GB Internet Radio at http://www.gaybombay.in/gbradio Web Sites: www.gaybombay.in www.gayindia.org Orkut: http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile?uid=15084918632470824129 Blogs: http://gaybombay.blogspot.com http://gaybombay.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gaybombay http://twitter.com/gayindia Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gaybombay http://www.facebook.com/gayindia
