Filmmaker, Ethnomusicologist Wins Fulbright Scholarship
PTI
Aug 31, 2012http://www.indiawest.com/news/6347-filmmaker-ethnomusicologist-wins-fulbright-scholarship.html
Jeffrey Roy, Ph.D. candidate in UCLA's ethnomusicology departmentWASHINGTON, United States
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, who is in the Ph.D. program of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, 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 the Audience Choice: Best Short Film award at the Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival (I-W, June 15).
Besides English and French, Roy knows Hindi and Urdu.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and mtvU announced the 2012 winners of the Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship Aug. 13 to study, for an academic year, aspects of international musical culture.
According to the Fulbright program's Web site, "Roy will create a documentary on how members of the LGBT community in India use music and dance to navigate tradition, modernity and globalization, in order to craft a contemporary, urban identity."
