Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford

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Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford Music / Media)

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 peoples creative engagements with gamings 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

Country	USA
Author	William Cheng
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780199970001
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Oxford University Press
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press
NumberOfPages	259
PublicationDate	2014-03-06
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ReleaseDate	2014-03-06
Studio	Oxford University Press

Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford Music / Media)

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