Toby Martin

Toby Martin is a songwriter, musician and historian. He is the author of Yodelling Boundary Riders: country music in Australia since the 1920s, and his recent albums include I Felt the Valley Lifting and Songs From Northam Ave. He is the lead singer of the rock band Youth Group and is currently co-chief investigator on the ARC project ‘Hearing the music of Early NSW 1788-1860’. He lives and works on Gadigal-Wangal land, and is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music at the University of Sydney.

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Review: Toby Martinon Jimmy Little
  • Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man by Frances Peters-Little Hardie Grant Publishing
    April 2023
    272pp
    ISBN 9781743799062

From Little Things

In a review of Frances Peters-Little’s new biography, musician and historian Toby Martin follows the exemplary career of Jimmy Little, whose life and work attest to popular music’s power to shift cultural and political attitudes.

Oct. 2023 • • •