ISBN13: | 9783031401428 |
ISBN10: | 3031401425 |
Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
Terjedelem: | 226 oldal |
Méret: | 210x148 mm |
Nyelv: | angol |
Illusztrációk: | 18 Illustrations, black & white; 11 Illustrations, color |
700 |
The Groovology of White Affect
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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.
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.
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.