{"product_id":"9783031401459","title":"The Groovology of White Affect: Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Groovology of White Affect: Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFroneman, Willemien\u003c\/h2\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\n\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 \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-05-15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031401459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-40143-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 231\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45442602598540,"sku":"9783031401459","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031401459.jpg?v=1776089332","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031401459","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}