Amplifying Power

“Amplifying Power is vital work, exciting work, thrilling work. Like the mixes, dubplates, and sound systems he writes about, Julian Henriques presses play and then follows the vibrations out in multiple directions, tracking amplified sound as it ripples across theories of technology, sociality, sound, and space.”–Josh Kun, author of, The Autograph Book of L.A.: Improvements on the Page of the City

“Amplifying Power is a love letter to the sound engineers whose embodied, vibronic knowing sustains collective life in and beyond Jamaican sound systems. Julian Henriques shows us how engineers create the intensities, pulsations, frequencies, and amplifications that produce the power of the dancehall, all the while positioning sounding as a technology of Black creative agency that sustains life outside of (but in relation to) Western modes of knowledge and authority. Big up and respect!”–Deborah A. Thomas, author of, Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance