EBOOK Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination - William Cheng

EBOOK Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination
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Autor: William Cheng

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199969999
EAN: C1439C29EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 264
Data wydania: 2014
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Video Games and the Musical Imagination
Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here.   Foreword by Richard Leppert  Video Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico

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William Cheng