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Sound Play Video Games And The Musical Imagination ~ Sound Play Video Games And The Musical Imagination Oxford MusicMedia William Cheng on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity

Sound Play Video Games and the Musical Imagination ~ Sound Play could very well be a turning point in the history of video game audio the day when game audio came of age and inherited the mantle of serious art through the lens of scholarly analysis With Sound Play game audio finally has the academic credentials it needs to take its place among the other fine arts

Sound Play Video Games and the Musical Imagination ~ In negotiating utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games Sound Play synthesizes insights from across musicology sociology anthropology communications literary theory and philosophy

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Sound Play Hardcover William Cheng Oxford University ~ Explores video game audio music noise speech silence from interdisciplinary perspectives Challenges traditional conceptions of sound culture cohabitation agency and free will Features major case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI Silent Hill Fallout 3 The Lord of the Rings Online and Team Fortress 2

Review Sound Play Video Games and the Musical ~ William Cheng’s 2014 Sound Play Video Games and the Musical Imagination asks us to take seriously the sociopolitical affective and ethical implications of video games and their sound worlds Ethnographically rich and rhetorically playful Cheng encourages us to imagine how both video games and music “possess transportative powers ushering us into otherworldly spaces and alternative states of mind” 4 and give rise to imaginative forms of play performance and human connection

Sound play video games and the musical imagination Book ~ Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails Sound Play explores the aesthetic ethical and sociopolitical stakes of peoples engagements with audio phenomena in video games from sonic violence to synthesized operas from democratic musical performances to verbal sexual harassment

Sound Play Video Games and the Musical Imagination by ~ In Sound Play William Cheng—Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows—examines video game sound in the context of broader cultural and social issues from agency and nostalgia to violence and fear among others

Sound Play Video Games and the Musical Imagination ~ Sound Play could very well be a turning point in the history of video game audio the day when game audio came of age and inherited the mantle of serious art through the lens of scholarly analysis With Sound Play game audio finally has the academic credentials it needs to take its place among the other fine arts

Sound Play Video Games And The Musical Imagination Oxford ~ This book is a thoughtprovoking wellwritten and diverse look at the many roles music and sound play in video games In Sound Play Cheng an award winning professor of music at Dartmouth College focuses not on the technological aspects of game music or even in its history