{"product_id":"the-groovology-of-white-affect-boeremusiek-and-the-enregisterment-of-race-in-south-africa-9783031401459","title":"The Groovology of White Affect: Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Willemien Froneman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Pop Vocal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Groovology of White Affect\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Groovology of White Affect\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47658187161751,"sku":"9783031401459","price":9219.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031401459.webp?v=1775817644","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-groovology-of-white-affect-boeremusiek-and-the-enregisterment-of-race-in-south-africa-9783031401459","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}