{"product_id":"literature-cultural-and-media-studies-9783031401435","title":"Literature, Cultural and Media Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 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.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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53578774184215,"sku":null,"price":14978.1,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783031401435.jpg?v=1782464428","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/products\/literature-cultural-and-media-studies-9783031401435","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}