Boeremusiek’s “Heart-Speech”
摘要
Precisely because boeremusiek has been so derided and ignored (both inside and outside of academia), it renders audible a take on racism and race formation that is distinctly sonic and affective, and thus not readily available to conventional analyses of literature, history, or political discourses on race in South Africa. The proposition is to analyze boeremusiek’s “metalanguage of affect” or “heart-speech” as outlining the parameters of what is posited here as a corrupted white aesthetic faculty.