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Native Title Research Unit
Ms Grace Koch
Native Title Research and Access OFFICER
Contact Details
GPO Box 553, AIATSIS, Canberra ACT 2601
Telephone: +61 2 6246
1103
Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714
Email: Grace.Koch[at]aiatsis.gov.au
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Grace Koch has a background in
musicology, education and media archiving and has lectured both
nationally and internationally on topics relating to those fields.
Areas of special interest centre on how audiovisual archival
material serves as evidence in Native Title claims and Indigenous
intellectual property issues in relation to digitisation of field
recordings and documentation. As Native Title Research and Access
Officer, she provides expert advice to clients and arranges for
dissemination of copies of relevant material held in the AIATSIS
collections. She has worked on a number of Aboriginal land claims
under both the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act
1976 and the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and is
presently doing a native title consultancy for the Central Land
Council.
Current Research Focus
Grace's recent research activities
have included Indigenous song language, analysis of Indigenous
songs from Groote Eylandt, Central Australia and other areas, and
preparing background research for a web site on the life and work
of the ethnomusicologist Alice Moyle. She recently completed work
on an ARC research team led by Luise Hercus on analysing song
cycles from the Simpson Desert and the Cooper. Present projects
include ‘The Future of Connection Material’ which aims to
establishing standards and developing skills towards proper
documentation and secure storage for connection material and other
original documents generated by the native title process and an
analysis of Native Title determinations to locate how songs are
used as evidence.
Recent Selected Publications
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Koch, Grace. (2007)
The Alice Moyle website: background and sound archives
communications. In Australasian Sound Archive no. 33, Winter
2007, pp 14-24.
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Koch, Grace (2005) ‘Negotiating the
Maze:Ethical Issues for Audiovisual Archivists’. In IASA Journal
no. 26, December 2005. pp 10-17.
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Koch, G. (with L. Barwick, W. Arthur, and F. Morphy).
(2005).
(Section on music in Chapter 11) 'Performing arts, sport and games'. Macquarie
Atlas of Indigenous Australia.
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Anderson, J and G. Koch. (2004) ‘The
Politics of Context: Issues for Law, Researchers and the
Compilation of Databases’, In L Barwick, A Marett and J Simpson
(eds), Researchers, Communities, Institutions, Sound Recordings.
Sydney: University of Sydney. Available at http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=2]
McConvell, Patrick and Grace Koch (2004) Multimedia and the
preservation of endangered languages- recent developments. In
IASA Journal no. 24, December 2004. pp 49-56.
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Koch, G. (2004) Voices of the past speaking to the future:
Audiovisual documents and proof of Native Title in Australia. IASA
Journal 22:20-31.
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Koch, G. (2003) Small voice in cyberspace: digitisation issues
for research archives. In C. Cole and H Craig (eds), Computing
Arts: Digital resources for research in the humanities. Papers
from a conference held at the University of Sydney, September
2001, pp. 11-26.
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Koch, G. (2003) Peoples of the northeast and Aboriginal songs
in land claims. In J. Whiteoak and A. Scott-Maxwell (eds), Currency
Companion to Music and Dance in Australia. Sydney: Currency
House, pp. 25, 28-9.
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Koch, G. (2002) Australia's sound heritage: Sound archives
in Australia and the ethical dimension. In G. Berlin and
A. Simon (eds) Music Archiving in the World. Preussischer
Kulturbesitz: Verlag fuer Wissenschaft und Bildung Staatliche
Museen Berlin,. pp.361-5.
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Koch, G. (2001) Cultural conservation: A two-way consultation.
In P. Seitel (ed.) Safeguarding Traditional Cultures:
A Global Assessment. Center for Folklife and Cultural
Heritage. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp.
159-65.
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Dixon, R.M.W. and G. Koch (1996) Dyirbal
song poetyr: The Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest
People. y. St. Lucia, Qld.: U. Qld Press.
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Koch, G. (with Harold Koch, transl. ) (1993) Kaytetye
Country. An Aboriginal history of the Barrow Creek area. Alice
Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
To view items by Grace Koch that are available through the AIATSIS
Library Mura Catalogue please click
here.
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