TY - BOOK ID - 144610699 TI - The Groovology of White Affect : Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa PY - 2024 SN - 3031401433 PB - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Folk music KW - Music and race KW - Popular music KW - History and criticism. KW - Popular music. KW - Music KW - Ethnology KW - Culture. KW - Popular Music. KW - History of Music. KW - African Culture. KW - Africa. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144610699 AB - 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. 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. ER -