TY - BOOK AU - Froneman,Willemien ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Groovology of White Affect: Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa SN - 9783031401435 AV - ML3469-3543 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Popular music KW - Music KW - History and criticism KW - Ethnology KW - Africa KW - Culture KW - Popular Music KW - History of Music KW - African Culture N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40143-5 ER -