Sound Play

Name: Sound Play
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780199969968
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Video Games and the Musical Imagination

Автор: Willam Cheng

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Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

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Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual mediu...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Willam Cheng

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2014

страници

262

EAN

9780199969968

ISBN

0199969965

Enbook ID

04537084

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

592

Размери

156 x 243 x 21

Пълно описание

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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