The Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa Froneman, Willemien. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XV, 231 p. 29 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource. The Groovology of White Affect theorizes white aesthetics and race formation in South Africa from a position immersed in the sonic. Mining boeremusiek’s “heart-speech” across two centuries of reception, the book offers a theory of race formation steeped in the music’s vernacular language and practices, and situated within South Africa's race ideologies. The book’s chapters identify and explore boeremusiek's affective modalities: embarrassment, blackface, epiphany, and disavowal. The book then theorizes indexicality and music, affect, and whiteness as interlinked ontologies. When considered together, the book argues, boeremusiek’s modalities outline the parameters of a corrupted white aesthetic faculty that help explain how whiteness perpetuates itself in the present day. Racism is thereby defined not primarily as a matter of prejudice, but as a matter of (conditional) pleasure and (pathological) taste. The Groovology of White Affect articulates a sound studies from the South; it is an attempt to write in a South Africa-centered way—amidst the collapse of colonial disciplines and a resulting disciplinary and methodological catholicism—for a broad, international audience interested in the affective constitution of race and racism. 1. Boeremusiek’s “Heart-Speech” -- 2. The Riches of Embarrassment -- 3. Blackfaced Boeremusiek and the Racial Grotesque -- 4. Epiphanies of Postcolonial Radiance -- 5. Disavowal and the Perverted Mind of Apartheid -- 6. The Groovology of White Affect. by Willemien Froneman. Popular music Music History and criticism Ethnology Africa Culture Popular Music History of Music African Culture ML3469-3543 9783031401435 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40143-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40143-5 240513 20251030112038.0 978-3-031-40143-5