[eBook] [PDF] For The Groovology of White Affect Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa 1st Edition By Willemien Froneman

[eBook] [PDF] For The Groovology of White Affect Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa 1st Edition By Willemien Froneman

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 in the context of South Africa’s race ideologies. The book’s chapters identifys and explore boeremusiek’s affective modalities: embarrassment, blackface, epiphany, and disavowal. The book then theorizes indexicality, music, affect and whiteness as three 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.