[wanabidii] Press Releases: 2015-16 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows to Explore Music's Influence Around the World

You are subscribed to Press Releases for U.S. Department of State. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Press Releases: 2015-16 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows to Explore Music's Influence Around the World 08/10/2015 04:42 PM EDT 2015-16 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows to Explore Music's Influence Around the World Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC August 10, 2015 Five recent U.S. college graduates have been selected to participate in the 2015-16 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship to explore the power of music to influence culture and engage audiences overseas on topics of global importance. Through this joint effort by the U.S. Department of State and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, fellows will pursue academic projects on international contemporary or popular music, focusing on music and social activism, music in learning, music and the community, and musical performance. Their findings will be shared online via the mtvU college network. The 2015-16 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows are: Christa Majoras, a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, will research how young Serbians influence culture through underground dance music; Brian Parker, an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will create a digital repository of interviews and original music by local artists in Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile; Sarah Plovnick, a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, will explore combinations of jazz and Dominican music and their influence on music education in the Dominican Republic; Dimitri Staszewski, a Loyola University New Orleans graduate, will film nomadic Mongolian herders performing traditional music and will create a digital archive; and Lena Weissbrot, an alumna of Florida State University, will examine hip hop music in South Africa as a form of activism among feminist artists. Full biographies and project descriptions can be found here. Fulbright-mtvU applications are field- and discipline-reviewed by U.S. and foreign academic leaders and regional experts. Top qualified candidates were then reviewed by Grammy Award-winning duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Pete Wentz of multi-platinum rock band Fall Out Boy, and the Grammy-Award winning band OK Go. The Presidentially-appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board approved the final selections based on the nominations. For more information, please contact ECA Press at ECA-Press@state.gov or (202) 632-6452. The Office of Website Management, Bureau of Public Affairs, manages this site as a portal for information from the U.S. State Department. External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein. Stay connected with the State Department:       External links found in this content or on Department of State websites that go to other non-Department websites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein.  Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please visit subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Department of State. This email was sent to wanabidii@googlegroups.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: U.S. Department of State · 2201 C Street NW · Washington, DC 20520

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