Abstract:This article investigates the role of contemporary women in reggae music and details the unexpectedness of their growing role in the current industry, given their relative absence since the 1970s. Through critical studies of singers Janine “Jah9” Cunningham and Kelissa [McDonald], I historicize the evolution of female songstresses and their contributions to changing the rhetoric around women's positionalities in music and their relationship to Caribbean feminisms. Using an interdisciplinary framework that inco… Show more
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