Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa is just a writer from the Champion’s League.
There’s a Chinese proverb, mostly attributed to Mao Zedong, which says: Women hold up half the sky.” Its intention is to acknowledge the equality between men and women, and to recognize that women are capable to achieve greatness. But in practice, our societies have done a remarkably terrible job at giving women their due; instead, we have built a system of oppression that silences their voices, obscures their achievements, and threatens their lives, every single day. We have a moral, historical duty to dismantle this dynamic, to change things in order to amplify and empower women. To achieve true equality.
In spite of this shameful history of oppression and abuse, women have always been at the forefront of our social, scientific, and artistic evolutions. No human accomplishment would ever exist without the invaluable contributions of female pioneers, and some of them have single-handedly invented entire fields of study without which our current understanding of the world would be impossible.
It was a woman who invented rock and roll. It was a woman who created science-fiction. It was a human who shaped the classical music of the entire 20th century. It was a woman who developed the notions that would come to define the totality of Western music. And there have been women in every nation, in every era, in every discipline, building our cultures from the ground up. Women don’t hold up half the sky, they hold the foundations of our entire existence.
Reggae, of course, is no exception. Every stage in the development of the Jamaican style has seen a great number of talented and influential women pushing things forward; in mento and ska, in rocksteady, in roots and in dancehall, even in dub. This mix is a tribute to the women that defined the genre.
Tracklist:
- Norma Fraser – First Cut Is The Deepest
- Myrna Hague – What About Me
- Denise Darlington – Feel So Good
- The Webber Sisters – Come On Home
- Dawn Penn – No No No
- Cecile Campbell – Leave Me In Misery
- Hortense Ellis – Secretly
- Little Audrey – Sea Puss And Bammie
- Soulettes – Deh Pon Dem
- Angela Prince – You A Fool Boy
- Jennifer Lara – I Am In Love
- Claudette McLean – Give Love Another Try
- Delia Humphrey – Dream Land
- Jerry Jones – There’s A Chance For Me
- Rita Marley – It’s Alright
- Marcia Griffiths – Working
- Doreen Schaffer – Ain’t Gonna Change My Mind
- Josephine Bryan – What Could I Do Without Jah
- Marlene Webber – My Baby
- Elaine Monteque – Hurt So Good
- Cherry Ann – Tell Me Something Good
- Pansey Scott – Top Of The World
- Pam Reid – Mysterious You
- Carol Barnwell – One Day At A Time
- Enid Cumberland – Town And Country Café
- Summertaires – You’re Gonna Leave Me
- Nome & Paulette (The Tonettes) – Everytime
- Susan Cadogan – Fever
- Sharon Forrester – Here Comes The Sun
- The Gaylettes – Son Of A Preacher Man
- Joya Landis – Kansas City
- The Dreamletts – Really Now
- Judy Mowatt – I Shall Sing
- Marguerita – Woman A Come
- Paulette Williams – My Island
- Phyllis Dillon – Perfidia
- Norma White – I Want Your Love
- Cynthia Schloss – Cha La La, I Need You
- Paula Clarke – Skip And Dance
- Carol Brown – Just Enough To Keep Me Hanging On
- Jennifer Day – Together
LINK: https://www.mixcloud.com/afhelvegum/af-helvegums-women-in-reggae-mix/
