William Cheng

Sound Play

Video Games and the Musical Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's engagements with audio phenomena in video games-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic musical performances to verbal sexual harassment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9780199969975
• ISBN-10: 0199969973
• Artikelnr.: 39743260

Autorenporträt

William Cheng is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His research on music, video games, opera, and other subjects have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal , Ethnomusicology, and 19th-Century Music. He is the recipient of the AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, AMS Philip Brett Award, and SAM Mark Tucker Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Richard Leppert
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Tune at the End of the World
Chapter 2: How Celes Sang
Chapter 3: Dead Ringers
Chapter 4: Role-Playing toward a Virtual Musical Democracy
Chapter 5: The Wizard, the Troll, and the Fortress
Epilogue
End Notes
Works Cited
Index