Songbirds
Subtitle: pioneering women in Jamaican music
By: Heather Augustyn
Publisher: Half Pint Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Chesterton, Indiana]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781502436047
Subjects: History and criticism; Ska (Music); Reggae musicians; Women musicians; Women singers; Calypso (Music); Reggae music; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Calypso monarch : Calypso Rose; title: First lady of Jamaican jazz : Totlyn Jackson; title: Little giant : Janet Enright; title: Mother of Jamaican music : Sister Mary Ignatius Davies; title: First lady of song : Hortense Ellis; title: Pata Pata Patsy: Millicent Todd; title: Queen of ska : Doreen Shaffer; title: The nightingale : Yvonne Harrison; title: Girl Satchmo : Kendris Fagan; title: The rhumba queen : Anita Mahfood; title: Sister of the studio : Enid Cumberland; title: World's first all-girl ska band : the Carnations; title: The blue beat girl : Millie Small; title: Singing sisters : the Webber Sisters; title: Queen of Rocksteady : Phyllis Dillon; title: Women of the Wailers : Beverley Kelso and Cherry Green; title: The legend : Norma Fraser; title: Reggae queen : Marcia Griffiths, with the Gaylettes, the Souleetes, the I-Threes; title: Career woman : Dawn Penn; title: Queen of lovers rock : Susan Cadogan; title: First lady of recording Sonia Pottinger; title: First female DJs : Althea & Donna; title: Jazz diva : Myrna Hague-Bradshaw; title: National treasure : Marjorie Whylie OD; title: Mothers, wives, and dance partners; title: The women of the world; title: Other pioneering women.