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Sound play : video games and the musical imagination / William Cheng.

By: Cheng, William Joaquín [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford music/media seriesPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xviii, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199969975 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Video game music | Video gamesDDC classification: 781.5'4 Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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