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In this talk, Froneman will discuss how boeremusiek practitioners have communicated what she calls a “metalanguage of affect” through linguistic tropes and musical and somatic gestures that index their ambivalent pleasure. She will explore how this metalanguage has become enregistered in white Afrikaner cultural memory through affective modalities like embarrassment, blackface, epiphanic listening, and disavowal. When considered together, she 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.
Willemien Froneman is an interdisciplinary music scholar affiliated with the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch University. Join us as she delves into how boeremusiek both preserves and complicates whiteness, offering critical insights into the ways in which music, memory, and race intersect. The event will also have a livestream on YouTube.
