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Women deejays in dancehall history

One side

Documented presence

The other

Under-representation

What was argued

Women deejays and singers are in the record from the earliest dancehall onward, and are consistently thinner in the histories than their male contemporaries — fewer interviews, fewer discographies, fewer photographs kept. The gap is in the documentation rather than in the music.

The records this concerns