Songbirds : pioneering women in Jamaican music / Heather Augustyn. PRINT

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Calypso monarch : Calypso Rose -- First lady of Jamaican jazz : Totlyn Jackson -- Little giant : Janet Enright -- Mother of Jamaican music : Sister Mary Ignatius Davies -- First lady of song : Hortense Ellis -- Pata Pata Patsy: Millicent Todd -- Queen of ska : Doreen Shaffer -- The nightingale : Yvonne Harrison -- Girl Satchmo : Kendris Fagan -- The rhumba queen : Anita Mahfood -- Sister of the studio : Enid Cumberland -- World's first all-girl ska band : the Carnations -- The blue beat girl : Millie Small -- Singing sisters : the Webber Sisters -- Queen of Rocksteady : Phyllis Dillon -- Women of the Wailers : Beverley Kelso and Cherry Green -- The legend : Norma Fraser -- Reggae queen : Marcia Griffiths, with the Gaylettes, the Souleetes, the I-Threes -- Career woman : Dawn Penn -- Queen of lovers rock : Susan Cadogan -- First lady of recording Sonia Pottinger -- First female DJs : Althea & Donna -- Jazz diva : Myrna Hague-Bradshaw -- National treasure : Marjorie Whylie OD -- Mothers, wives, and dance partners -- The women of the world -- Other pioneering women.