• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Women in Jamaican Music

Women in Jamaican Music

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryWomen's StudiesWorld Music

ISBN10: 1476680957
ISBN13: 9781476680958
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 9 2020
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, half the story has never been told. This rings particularly true for the little-known women in Jamaican music who comprise significantly less than half of the Caribbean nation's musical landscape. This book covers the female contribution to Jamaican music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers, deejays and supporters of the arts. Relegated to marginalized spaces, these pioneering women fought for their claim to the spotlight amid oppressive conditions to help create and shape Jamaica's musical heritage.

Also in

World Music