Julian Henriques

Julian Henriques was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; his father, Fernando Henriques, was Jamaican and his mother was of Irish and English descent.{{cite web|first=David|last=Katz|author-link=David Katz (author)|url=https://afropop.org/articles/julian-henriques-interview|title=Julian Henriques Interview|website=AfroPop|date= 5 July 2017|access-date=18 June 2022}} When Henriques was 15 or 16, he and his two brothers were brought to Jamaica by their father, which "was the beginning of a longstanding working relationship with the island".

In the 1970s, Henriques co-founded the journal Ideology and Consciousness, which published writing on new theories in modern psychology, and he remained on the journal's editorial staff until 1977.{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/henriques-julian-1955|title=Henriques, Julian 1955(?)–|website=Encyclopedia.com|first=Carol|last= Brennan}} He began his film career in the 1980s, working at Channel Four Television and at BBC television on the programme Ebony and then in the Music and Arts Department on Omnibus and Arena. His independent productions include On Duty in 1984, and he directed Exit No Exit in 1988, and in 1992 We the Ragamuffin, as well as executive producing a number of documentaries for his production company with Parminder Vir, Formation Films, founded in 1987.{{cite web|first=Amanda|last= Daud|url=https://thebritishblacklist.co.uk/tbb-talks-to-director-julian-henriques-and-producer-parminder-vir-on-the-bfi-blu-ray-release-of-babymother/ |title=TBB Talks to … Director Julian Henriques, and Producer Parminder Vir|website=The British Blacklist|date= 2 October 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://parmindervir.com/documentary-films-as-a-tool-for-social-change/|title=Documentary films as a tool for social change|website=Parminder Vir OBE|access-date=20 June 2022}}

His first feature film as a writer and director was Babymother (1998), produced by Parminder Vir,{{cite web|url=https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-37/harder-they-dance#axzz7WbsjvHt9|title=The Harder They Dance|first=Annie|last=Paul|magazine=Caribbean Beat|issue= 37|date=May–June 1999|access-date=18 June 2022}} about which Stuart Hall wrote in Sight and Sound: "This film is wired directly into the motor of assertive energy which is powering so-called multicultural Britain, to whose rhythm London is increasingly swinging."{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/rage-harlesden-stuart-hall-babymother-britains-first-dancehall-drama|title=A rage in Harlesden: Stuart Hall on Babymother, Britain's first dancehall drama|work=Sight and Sound|first=Stuart|last=Hall|date=September 1998|access-date=18 June 2022|publisher=BFI}} It is considered to be the first Black British musical and captures the British Caribbean dancehall cultural scene of London.{{Cite web|url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-babymother-1998-online|title=Watch Babymother|website=BFI Player}} It was also one of the few British musicals of its period.{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/442572/index.html|title=Babymother (1998)|first=Onyekachi |last=Wambu|author-link=Onyekachi Wambu|website=www.screenonline.org.uk|publisher=BFI Screenonline}} On 26 July 2021, the remastered film was reissued by the BFI and released on Blu-ray.

A psychology graduate of the University of Bristol,{{cite web|url=https://graduates.name/university_of_bristol-2690-156#|title=University of Bristol Alumni|publisher=University of Bristol|access-date=18 June 2022}} Henriques in 2008 earned a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, his doctoral thesis being titled "Sonic Bodies: the Skills and Performance Techniques of the Reggae Sound System Crew".

Henriques ran the film and television department at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica,{{cite web|url=https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contributors/julian-henriques|title=Julian Henriques|website=Anthropocene Curriculum|access-date=19 June 2022}} from 1996 to 2001, going on to become a lecturer at Goldsmiths, where he is convenor of the MA in Cultural Studies and the MA in Script Writing. His research focuses on street cultures, music and technologies, including those of the reggae sound system.{{cite web|url=https://sonic-street-technologies.com/teams/julian-henriques/|title=Julian Henriques|website=Sonic Street Technologies|access-date=19 June 2022}}

Also a sound artist, his installation Knots and Donuts was at the Tate Modern.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_zF0NVHWA|title=Sound Reasons 2013 {{!}} Dr. Julian Henriques {{!}} Sound Sculpture {{!}} Knots and Donuts|via=YouTube}}{{cite web|url=https://soundreasons.in/knots-and-donuts/|title=Knots and Donuts 3D sound sculpture|website=Sound Reasons Festival VI |date= 2018}}

His books include Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011), described by Stuart Hall as "an exciting text that is thoroughly grounded in Jamaican 'sonic' cultures, technically sophisticated, full of original insights, and theoretically bold and adventurous",{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-bodies-9781441144294/|title=Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing|publisher=Bloomsbury}} and about which Dennis Howard said in Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture: "Julian Henriques offers a fresh and illuminating exploration of Jamaican auditory culture through the reggae sound system, making a significant contribution to an aspect of Caribbean and Jamaican culture that is in dire need of interrogation and epistemological grounding."{{cite journal|url=https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/737/704|title=Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques and Ways of Knowing|journal=Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques and Ways of Knowing (Julian Henriques)|volume=7|number=2|date=2015}}

His current research projects include The Sonic Womb,{{cite web|url=https://sonicwomb.tech/|title=About Us|website=Sonic Womb|access-date=23 June 2022}} the Sound System Outernational research group,{{cite web|url=https://sites.gold.ac.uk/sound-system-outernational/|title=Sound System Outernational|publisher=Goldsmiths|access-date=23 June 2022}} and Sonic Street Technologies, a European Research Council consolidator grant (2021–2025) on which he is Principal Investigator.{{cite web|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/866239|title=Sonic Street Technologies (SST): their diaspora and what they tell us about technology and scientific knowledge|publisher=European Commission|access-date=23 June 2022}}

In 1985, Henriques married Parminder Vir, business executive, filmmaker and television producer, and they have two daughters: Mala and Anuradha.[http://www.ila-net.org/WLC/WLC19-2/Parminder-Vir-OBE-Biography.pdf "Parminder Vir OBE".] His father was eminent anthropologist Professor Fernando Henriques.{{cite web|url= https://parmindervir-blog.tumblr.com/post/76624849305/the-jippi-jappa-hat-merchant-and-his-family-a|title=The Jippi-Jappa Hat Merchant and his Family: A Jamaican Family in Britain|website=Parminder Vir|date=14 February 2014|access-date=23 June 2022}} Born in Jamaica in 1916 (with his notable siblings including Pauline Henriques and Cyril Henriques), Fernando at the age of three came to London, eventually attending Oxford University, where he became President of the Oxford Union in 1944,{{cite book |title=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford | publisher=Macmillan |chapter=Presidents of the Union since 1900 | year=1988 | pages=527–532 | isbn=0-333-39917-X |editor-last=Hibbert|editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Hibbert | title-link=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford }} receiving his DPhil in 1948, and being appointed lecturer in Social Anthropology at Leeds in 1948, going on to be Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies – possibly the first Black academic in the UK to hold such a role.{{cite web|url=https://northernnotes.leeds.ac.uk/history-of-sociology-and-social-policy-at-leeds/|title=History of Sociology and Social Policy at Leeds|website=Northern Notes|date=13 August 2019|access-date=23 June 2022}}

• 1984: On Duty (producer)
• 1988: Brideshead and the Tower Blocks (producer)
• 1988: Exit No Exit (co-originator/producer – Formation Films for Channel Four)
• 1990: The Green Man (producer/director – BBC Omnibus)
• 1992: We the Ragamuffin (director, script writer)
• 1993: Derek Walcott: Poet of the Island (documentary; producer/director – BBC Arena)
• 1995: Rouch in Reverse (executive producer)
• 1998: Babymother (feature film; director, script writer)
• 2000: Ding Dong Merrily on High (director)
• 2019: Denzil's Dance (documentary; producer/director)

• (With Wendy Hollway, Cathy Urwin, Couze Venn and Valerie Walkerdine) Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity, 1998, Routledge, {{ISBN|9780415151382}}
• Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing, 2011. Continuum/Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|9781441144294}}
• "Hearing Things and Dancing Numbers: Embodying Transformation, Topology at Tate Modern", in Theory, Culture & Society, 4 October 2012.{{cite journal|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276412450468?journalCode=tcsa|title=Hearing Things and Dancing Numbers: Embodying Transformation, Topology at Tate Modern|journal=Theory, Culture & Society|first=Julian|last=Henriques|year=2012 |doi=10.1177/0263276412450468|volume=29| issue=4–5|pages=334–342|s2cid=145741316 }}
• "Rhythmic Bodies: Amplification, Inflection and Transduction in the Dance Performance Techniques of the 'Bashment Gal{{'"}}, in Body & Society, 6 October 2014.{{cite journal|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X14546878?journalCode=boda|title=Rhythmic Bodies: Amplification, Inflection and Transduction in the Dance Performance Techniques of the 'Bashment Gal'|first=Julian|last=Henriques|journal=Body & Society|year=2014 |volume=20| issue= 3–4| pages= 79–112|doi=10.1177/1357034X14546878|s2cid=145743154 }}
• (Editor, with David Morley and Vana Goblot) Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies, 2018, Goldsmiths Press, {{ISBN|9781906897475}}{{cite book|url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/stuart-hall-conversations-projects-and-legacies/|title=Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies|editor-first=Julian|editor-last=Henriques|editor2=David Morley|editor3=Vana Goblot|publisher=Goldsmiths Press|date=2018|isbn=9781906897475}}
• Sonic Media: the Street Technology of the Jamaican Sound System, 2022, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press (forthcoming).{{cite web|url=https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/23990/|title=Sonic Media: the Street Technology of the Jamaican Sound System|first=Julian F.|last=Henriques|website=Research Online|publisher=Goldsmiths University of London}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20200718115157/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0dcb4f2 "Julian Henriques"] at BFI.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2_TdTztug "Prof. Julian Henriques on What Music Makers Know – But May Not Know They Do"], 13 December 2022 (video)

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