TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheng,William Joaquin
TI  - Sound play: video games and the musical imagination 
T2  - The Oxford music/media series
SN  - 9780199969999 (ebook)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Video game music
KW  - Video games
KW  - Music
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Theory of music & musicology
KW  - thema
KW  - Music recording & reproduction
KW  - Music industry
KW  - Digital music: consumer / user guides
KW  - Computer games / online games: strategy guides
KW  - Electronic, holographic & video art
KW  - Social & cultural anthropology
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780199969975; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 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; 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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