Editing Music of Australia (section)

===Artists===
[[Jimmy Little]] is regarded as the first Aboriginal performer to achieve mainstream success, with his debut 1964 song "The Royal Telephone" highly popular and successful.<ref name=AAOCulture>{{cite web|url=http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/conmusic.php|title=Contemporary Aboriginal Music|publisher=Aboriginal Art Online|access-date=12 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617052404/http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/conmusic.php|archive-date=17 June 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, Little was presented with an [[honorary doctorate]] in music by the [[University of Sydney]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=6&newsstoryid=195|title=Music honours for Jimmy Little and Peter Sculthorpe|date=6 June 2005|access-date=12 April 2008|publisher=[[University of Sydney]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203141904/http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=6&newsstoryid=195|archive-date=3 February 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite the popularity of some of his work, Little failed to launch indigenous music in the country—from the 1970s onwards, groups such as [[Coloured Stone]], [[Warumpi Band]], and [[No Fixed Address (band)|No Fixed Address]] helped improve the image of the genre.<ref name=AAOCulture /> It was [[Yothu Yindi]] that brought indigenous music to the mainstream, with their 1991 song "Treaty", from the album ''[[Tribal Voice]]'', becoming a hit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A7u6cmpp39f2o |title=Tribal Voice > Overview |website=[[AllMusic]] |author=Jonathan Lewis |access-date=12 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603090016/http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg |archive-date=3 June 2009 }}</ref> It reached No. 11 on the [[ARIA Singles Chart]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Yothu+Yindi&titel=Treaty&cat=s|title=Yothu Yindi – Treaty|publisher=australian-charts.com|access-date=12 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310175525/http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Yothu+Yindi&titel=Treaty&cat=s|archive-date=10 March 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The band's performances were based on the traditional [[Yolngu]] dance, and embodied a sharing of culture.<ref name=AAOCulture /> The success of Yothu Yindi—winners of eight [[ARIA Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=Y&artist=Yothu%20Yindi|title=Winners by artist: Yothu Yindi|publisher=[[ARIA Awards]]|access-date=12 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213050141/http://ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=Y&artist=Yothu%20Yindi|archive-date=13 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>—was followed in by [[Kev Carmody]], [[Tiddas (band)|Tiddas]], [[Archie Roach]] and Christine Anu, and numerous other indigenous Australian musicians.<ref name=AAOCulture />

[[File:Fanny Cochrane Smith recording.jpg|thumb|Horace Watson recording the songs of [[Fanny Cochrane Smith]], considered to be the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language, 1903. Folk-singer [[Bruce Watson (songwriter)|Bruce Watson]], descendant of Watson, composed a song about this picture and later performed it with singer Ronnie Summers, a descendant of Smith.]]
Indigenous Australian music is unique, as it dates back more than 60,000 years to the [[prehistory of Australia]] and continues the ancient songlines through contemporary artists as diverse as: [[David Hudson (musician)|David Dahwurr Hudson]], [[Warumpi Band]], Wild Water, [[Saltwater Band]], [[Nabarlek (band)|Nabarlek]], [[Nokturnl]], [[the Pigram Brothers]], [[Blekbala Mujik]], and [[Ruby Hunter]].

In 2024, Indigenous Australian artists have achieved incredible success at home and abroad, with chart-toppers like [[The Kid Laroi]], [[Thelma Plum]] and [[Baker Boy]] (who raps and sings in both English and Yolngu) dominating. In 2022, 10 tracks in the Triple J listener-voted Hottest 100 countdown featured Indigenous representation, which was a new record. Arnhem Land's [[King Stingray]] was responsible for four of those entries alone.