Graeme Counsel (African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific)

Submitted: Thursday, December 16, 2010


Dr. Graeme Counsel
Treasurer
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP)

phone: 61 3 8344 8323

email: graeme@radioafrica.com.au

Website: http://www.radioafrica.com.au/

AFSAAP site: http://www.afsaap.org.au/


Research interests:

Cultural policy, history, and the arts in Guinea, Mali, The Gambia, and Senegal. West 
African music. Griots. Mande diaspora. 


Publications:

"Music for a coup - "Armee Guineenne". An overview of Guinea's recent political turmoil". 
Australasian Review of African Studies. 31 (2), pp. 94-112. 

"Archival and research resources in Conakry, Guinea". History in Africa. 36,
pp. 439-445. 2009.

Mande popular music and cultural policies in West Africa. 
Germany: VDM. 2009. 

Keletigui et ses Tambourinis. The Syliphone years. Sterns. 
STCD 3031-32. 2 compact discs. 2009.

"Digitising and archiving Syliphone recordings in Guinea". 
Australasian Review of African Studies. 30 (1), pp. 144-150. 
2009.

"In reel time: Saving Africa's endangered archives". Planetree. 
Spring 2009, pp. 21-23.

Balla et ses Balladins. The Syliphone years. Sterns. STCD 
3035-36. 2 compact discs. 2008.

Bembeya Jazz National. The Syliphone years. Hits and rare 
recordings. Sterns STCD 3029-30. 2 compact discs. 2007.

Authenticit. The Syliphone years. Guinea's Orchestres Nationaux 
and Fédéraux 1965 - 1980. Sterns. STCD 3025-26. 2 compact  
discs. 2007.

"Syliphone records".  The Rough Guide to Africa & Middle East. 
Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham & Jon Lusk, eds. London: Rough Guides. 2006.
 
Directory of Africanists in Australasia and the Pacific. 6th ed.
Melbourne: AFSAAP. 2005.
 
"Guinea's Syliphone recording label."  The Rough Guide to World Music.
London: The Rough Guides. 2005.
 
Bembeya Jazz National. The Syliphone Years. Stern's. STCD 
3021-22. 2 compact discs. 2005.

"Music in Guinea's first republic", in  Mande-Manding. Background 
Reading for Ethnographic Research in the Region South of Bamako. Jan 
Jansen (ed). Leiden: Leiden University Department of Cultural Anthropology 
and Development Sociology. 2004. 

"The return of Mali's national arts festival," in Mande-Manding. 
Background Reading for Ethnographic Research in the Region South of 
Bamako. Jan Jansen (ed). Leiden: Leiden University Department of 
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. 2004.
   
"Popular Music and Politics in Skou Tour Guinea". Australasian Review 
of African Studies. 26 (1), pp. 26-42. 2004.
   
"Cultural policy and music in Mali." Africa Quarterly. 43 (3), 
pp. 36-51. 2003. 

"Regionalisation." Roots. 225, pp. 45, 47. 2002.   

"Golden Guinea." Roots. 211/212. pp 46-47, 49. 2001.