The Music Studies Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Jasmine Henry as part of the Fall 2023 Music Studies Colloquium Series. Dr. Henry’s talk will be titled “The Right to Rave: Resistance, Revolution, and the Black Feminist Imagination in Electronic Dance Music.”

Jasmine A. Henry (she/her) is an assistant professor of music and Wolf Humanities fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Black electronic dance music, DIY music production, and Afrofuturism. Henry's recent articles and reviews on popular music, race, and production appear in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Popular Culture Studies Journal. Currently, Henry is working on a book-length project that critically examines the rich heritage of Black urban club music and party cultures in Newark, New Jersey while also exploring how present- day participants navigate the complex cultural politics of Black club music production and performance on local, regional, and global scales. Henry's scholarship is heavily influenced by her background as a sound engineer and her involvement in local community initiatives that provide underserved youth with the opportunity to access music technologies and industry knowledge.