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This map will become the multimedia lens for the exploration of each art form. The team is made up of students and expert volunteers who are passionate about the arts.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Music Origins Project aims to remove the chronological and geographic barriers faced by music aficionados, students and travelers seeking to learn about the origins of various musical genre. The site/blog is a searchable, index of the cultural origins of musical art forms along with geo-located multimedia primary sources music and crowdsourced commentary. This site has been created to iterate and improve the database. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Founder, Executive Producer, Curator</b>:<b> </b>David Grandison Jr.</span></span></h2><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Grandison Jr. was raised in Detroit, Michigan and received a Masters Degree in Instru
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These orgs used the DIYdoc app to enable volunteers in Africa and India to create short films on their smartphones that both highlight the positive stories of people living successfully with HIV and to draw attention to the struggles of activists, and refugees.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Â </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">David has led production teams that have reimagined how health info is shared with teens as he helped found the Amaze Project (Amaze.org). His team produced a series of 30+ award winning animated shorts on challenging educational topics like sexual health, mental health, and gender identity.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Â </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">He is also a Producer on the team for the feature film God Said Give Emâ Drum Machines (GSGEDM.com) which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. This film explores the birth of Techno music in Detroit and how Afro American teens revolutionized electronic music around the world. This film in partnership with his site The Music Origins Project (MusicOrigins.org), a project he created as part of his Masters Thesis at Columbia (TC), will teach young people digital storytelling and other STEM skills.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Â </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">David most recently was Executive Producer at Yellowbrick (Yellowbrick.co). Yellowbrick connects the worldâs leading universities with brands like Billboard Magazine, Complex Magazine, and Rolling Stone to develop learning experiences that help tomorrow’s leaders discover careers by following their passion. Ultimately, he specializes in utilizing cutting edge technology to create interactive multimedia websites, apps, games and VR projects to make learning fun.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Â </span></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Â </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The Team</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Producer:</b> Andre Holmes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Â </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Writers:<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="https://musicorigins.org/author/dgrandisonjr/">David Grandison Jr</a>.,</span> </b><a href="https://musicorigins.org/author/kimberley/">Kimberly Scribe</a>,<b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gloria Colon, Andre Holmes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Student Contributors:</b> Elena Takmakova, Romain Nicoletti, Erin Blankstein, Samantha Ann</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Â </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Â </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Special thanks to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Google</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>YouVisit</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and <a href="http://yellowbrick.co/music"><b>Yellowbrick.co/Music</b></a> for their support of the project.</span></p> </div> 437 </div>
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