Prof Willemien Froneman
Associate Professor
Willemien Froneman is an extraordinary associate professor at AOI. She writes about white musical aesthetics in South Africa, mainly through the lens of boeremusiek—a marginal and much-stigmatized genre of South African folk music. She coedits the journal SAMUS: South African Music Studies.
- ‘After Fame: A Micro-Ethnography of Popular Late Style’, Popular Music & Society. Published online first.
Download - ‘Ex-Centric Hermeneutics in Stephanus Muller’s Nagmusiek’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle. Published online.
Download - ‘Music and Landscape: Two Tales of Borehole Drilling in the Karoo’, Cultural Geographies, Vol. 22/4 (2015), 713-722.
- ‘Subjunctive Pleasure: The Odd Hour in the Boeremusiek Museum’, Popular Music, Vol. 33/1 (2014), 1-17.
- ‘Seks, ras en boeremusiek: agter die retoriek van gebrekkige sanglus by die 1938-Voortrekkereeufees’, LitNet Akademies, Vol. 11/2 (2014).
- ‘She Danced Alone: Jo Fourie, Songcatcher of the Groot Marico’, Ethnomusicology Forum, Vol. 21/1 (2012), 53-76.
- The Riches of Embarrassment [On doing ethnography at home], Critical Arts, Vol. 25/2 (2011), 309-315.
- ”Composing According to Silence”: Undecidability in Derrida and Cage’s Roaratorio’, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 41/2 (2010), 293-317.