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Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Hardcover)
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Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Music/Media Series
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Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative
play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample
opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and
impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical,
and sociopolitical stakes of our engagements with gaming's audio
phenomena-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from
democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. Author William
Cheng shows how the simulated environments of games empower
designers, composers, players, and scholars to test and tinker with
music, noise, speech, and silence in ways that might not be prudent
or possible in the real world. In negotiating utopian and alarmist
stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights from
across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications,
literary theory, and philosophy. With case studies that span 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.
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