The introduction discusses the book’s ethnographic scope and theoretical problematic, introducing the concept of the vocal uncanny and outlining the different ways in which the voice is made the subject of an expressive, institutional, and technologically informed reflexivity in radio and music production. This locally acute voice consciousness is shaped by three imperatives of Aboriginal audio media production—that it give voice, link people up, and sound black. The chapter introduces and discusses these imperatives and their imbrication with enduring forms of Aboriginal cosmology, Australian governmentality, and with new forms of Indigenous public culture and suggests that the voice in northern Australian media production must be understood as at once an object of institutional desire, a site of governmental interest, and as the raison d’être of a broad range of activist initiatives. The introduction concludes with an account of the author’s fieldwork and an overview of the book’s chapters.