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Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,244
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Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Paperback): William Cheng

Sound Play - Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Paperback)

William Cheng

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.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Oxford Music/Media Series
Release date: March 2014
First published: April 2014
Authors: William Cheng (Postdoctoral fellow)
Dimensions: 234 x 165 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-996997-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Music recording & reproduction
Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Computer games
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Audio processing > Music & sound effects
Books > Music > Music recording & reproduction
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN: 0-19-996997-3
Barcode: 9780199969975

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