{"product_id":"remixing-race-after-apartheid-kaapse-klopse-in-south-africa-9780819502353","title":"Remixing Race After Apartheid: Kaapse Klopse in South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first in-depth study of Kaapse klopse, a carnival tradition in South Africa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemixing Race after Apartheid \u003c\/i\u003eis the first ethnographic monograph centered on Kaapse klopse, a South African carnival tradition, and it uses this genre as a critical lens to explore how sound mediates racial identity in the postapartheid era. Drawing on immersive fieldwork, interviews, and performance analysis, the book employs methods from sensory ethnography, sound studies, and critical race theory to foreground participants' lived experiences and aesthetic practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study reveals how klopse has expanded since apartheid's end, particularly among youth and women, serving as a site of cultural resistance and self-making. Participants use klopse to respond to the racial and spatial legacies of apartheid and to marginalization within the everyday social, political, and economic conditions in which they live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the reductive portrayals of klopse as either escapist or criminal, the book critiques the use of imported aesthetic categories and instead centers local meaning-making. \u003ci\u003eRemixing Race\u003c\/i\u003e shows how klopse operates as a dynamic, multisensory space where performers negotiate identity, history, and belonging--without collapsing their creativity into identity politics or erasing their social positioning. It offers a model for how ethnographic and sonic methodologies can illuminate the affective and political dimensions of racialized cultural expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFRANCESCA INGLESE is an assistant professor of music at Northeastern University. Her articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eEthnomusicology\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Music Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Society for American Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Music\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfrican Music\u003c\/i\u003e, amongst other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52128878330130,"sku":"9780819502353","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9465c93b-f216-4a70-96f3-993db9b20ed5.jpg?v=1773822386","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/remixing-race-after-apartheid-kaapse-klopse-in-south-africa-9780819502353","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}