This article focuses on the formative role of the Aboriginal Artists Agency in building today’s global market for Australian Indigenous artists. From 1976 to 1986, the Agency worked with Australian Indigenous musicians and dancers to undertake many innovative recording and touring projects. This study addresses the Agency’s early innovations in encouraging and supporting the recording and touring aspirations of Australian Indigenous performers across a hitherto unexplored continuum of traditional and popular styles, as well as the Agency’s contributions to catalysing similar breadth in scholarly discourse. The study aims to demonstrate how the Agency’s ambitious program of recording and touring projects with a wide array of prolific Australian Indigenous artists contributed to generating new and diversified market demand for their talents and works both within Australia and internationally.

本文重点介绍原住民艺术家机构在为澳大利亚原住民艺术家打造当今全球市场方面的形成性作用。从 1976 年到 1986 年，该机构与澳大利亚土著音乐家和舞蹈家合作开展了许多创新的录音和巡回演出项目。本研究探讨了该机构在鼓励和支持澳大利亚土著表演者在迄今为止尚未探索的传统和流行风格的连续体中录制和巡回演出方面的早期创新，以及该机构对促进学术讨论中类似广度的贡献。