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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.
In 2008 she was awarded the Special Recognition Award for
Outstanding Service to the International Association of Sound and
Audiovisual Archives and the Australasian Sound Recordings
Association award for services to sound archiving and indigenous
collections. Areas of special interest centre on how audiovisual
archival material and music serve as evidence in Native Title
claims, ethical issues in access to audiovisual materials 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 has recently completed 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 has completed work on an ARC
research team led by Luise Hercus on analysing song cycles from the
Simpson Desert and the Cooper. Her project ‘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
produced by the native title process, has generated a project at
Queensland South Native Title Services to improve collection
management systems. Presently, she is conducting an analysis of
Native Title determinations to locate how songs are used as
evidence.
Recent Selected Publications
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Koch, Grace and Myfany Turpin
(2008) ‘The language of Central Australian Songs’. In
Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa
Miceli (eds). 2008. Morphology and Language History. In
honour of Harold Koch. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Pp 167-183.
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Koch, Grace (2008) ‘Music and land
rights : archival recordings as documentation for Australian
Aboriginal land claims.’ Fontes Artis Musicae.
January-March 2008. pp 155-164.
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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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