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Graeme Counsel	Australia - University of Melbourne

Graeme Counsel is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His publications examine social and cultural policy in Africa with particular reference to music and the arts. He is an executive member of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific and is the Centre Manager of the Graduate Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Primary role

Researcher, Policy analyst, Academic, Manager

Interests

Comparative cultural policy, Cultural heritage, Research and skills development, Cultural education and regional innovation policies, Political communications

Languages

English

Nationality

Australian

Location

University of Melbourne, Australia

Institution type

University

Available

(available for freelance work)

Contact Details

University of Melbourne

Australia

Tel

+61 (3) 8344 8323

Fax

counselg@unimelb.edu.au

Quick link

www.connectcp.org/GraemeCounsel

Web

www.radioafrica.com.au

Institution email

counselg@unimelb.edu.au

Job title

Centre Manager

Resident

Australia

Biography

Graeme Counsel is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has written extensively on the topic of Culture in Africa, and his research and publications examine relationships between African politics and the arts, exploring the ways in which cultural policies shape cultural expression.

Graeme gained a PhD in 2007 and a MMus in 2000 from the University of Melbourne, where he is currently employed. His PhD analysed the cultural policies of several West African nations, while his recent publications have covered topics including music and coups, research resources in Africa, and archival reports.

He has assembled an important collection of African recordings and his research has helped to recreate catalogues of early African recording labels. He maintains these as discographies at his Radio Africa web site, which also provides resource information for researchers including videos of African music performances. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in West Africa, and has worked closely with the local authorities at the national archives, radio stations, and libraries of Guinea, Mali, Senegal and The Gambia.

Graeme's research projects have been exhibited at Guinea's national museum. Among his grants are three Major Research Project Awards through the British Library. This funding led to the recreation of the complete catalogue of the Syliphone recording label and the archiving of over 9,000 songs at Radio Télévision Guinée in Conakry. In 2008 the Guinean government recognised his contribution to culture by awarding him the gold medal of the Palme Académique en Or and a Diplôme d’Honneur.

In addition to his academic publications he compiled and annotated the acclaimed "The Syliphone years" series of compact discs of Guinean music, released by Sterns. He has contributed to several other CD releases, and has provided commentary for the BBC, ABC, SBS, and African television, radio and print media.

Graeme has provided consultancy services for African governments. He is currently employed as the Centre Manager in the Graduate Centre at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Treasurer of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific and is an active member of the executive committee.

Employment history

2003 - 2013 Centre Manager - University of Melbourne (Australia) -

University education and honours

	2007 PhD Cultural Studies - Mande popular music and cultural policies in West Africa - University of Melbourne (Australia)
	2000 MMUs The Influence of the Jali Tradition on Post-Colonial and Contemporary West African Popular Music - University of Melbourne (Australia)
	1997 BA (hons) - Monash University (Australia)

Books published - authored and edited ( 2 )

	Counsel, Graeme (2009) Mande Popular Music and Cultural Policies in West Africa: Griots and Government Policy since Independence, Verlag, VDM Verlag , ISSN/ISBN:3639153057, 9783639153057
	Counsel, Graeme (2005) Directory of Africanists in Australasia and the Pacific. 6th edition, Melbourne, African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, ISSN/ISBN:0959462155

Articles or chapters ( 9 )

	Counsel, Graeme (2012) 'Conserving the Archives of a National Broadcaster in Africa', IN: Context 37 121-127,
	Counsel, Graeme (2010) 'Music for a Coup – Armée Guinéenne. An Overview of Guinea's Recent Political Turmoil', IN: Australasian Review of African Studies 31 (2) 94-112, ISSN/ISBN:14478420
	Counsel, Graeme (2009) 'Archival and Research Resources in Conakry, Guinea.', IN: History in Africa 36 439-445, ISSN/ISBN:15582744, 03615413 DOI:10.1353/hia.2010.0003
	Counsel, Graeme (2009) 'Digitising and Archiving Syliphone Recordings in Guinea', IN: Australasian Review of African Studies 30 (1) 144-150, ISSN/ISBN:14478420
	Counsel, Graeme (2006) 'Syliphone Records', IN: Broughton, Simon and Mark Ellingham (eds.) The Rough Guide to World Music. Volume One: Africa & The Middle East, Second Edition (First edition in 2000) 1 , ISSN/ISBN:1858286352, 9781858286358
	Counsel, Graeme (2004) 'Music in Guinea’s First Republic', IN: Jansen, Jan (ed.) Mande-Manding. Background reading for ethnographic research in the region south of Bamako (Mali), Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University , ISSN/ISBN:9090177272, 9789090177274
	Counsel, Graeme (2004) 'The return of Mali’s national arts festival.', IN: Mande-Manding. Background reading for ethnographic research in the region south of Bamako , ISSN/ISBN:90-9017727-2
	Counsel, Graeme (2003) 'Popular Mmusic and Politics in Sékou Touré’s Guinea', IN: Australasian Review of African Studies 26 (1) 26-42,
	Counsel, Graeme (2003) 'Cultural Policy and Music in Mali', IN: Africa Quarterly 43 (3) p. 36-51,

General Links (provided by profile member)

1. www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/staff/graeme_counsel

2. www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person183008#tab-overview

3. www.afsaap.org.au/

Last Updated: 10/05/2013

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