Willemien Froneman

Willemien Froneman is an interdisciplinary music scholar and holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Stellenbosch. Her interests extend from American music experimentalism to avant-gardism and modernity in the Global South. Much of her published research is about whiteness and affect as these concerns relate to popular music vernaculars in South Africa. As a former editor of South African Music Studies , she has worked towards finding new forms of decolonial academic publishing...See more

Willemien Froneman is an interdisciplinary music scholar and holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Stellenbosch. Her interests extend from American music experimentalism to avant-gardism and modernity in the Global South. Much of her published research is about whiteness and affect as these concerns relate to popular music vernaculars in South Africa. As a former editor of South African Music Studies , she has worked towards finding new forms of decolonial academic publishing that renders visible the realities of South African institutions and scholarly concerns. She lives and works in South Africa. See less