Ludomusicology

Approaches to Video Game Music

Melanie Fritsch (Autor)

Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2016
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-197-4 (ISBN)

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The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions concerning how video game music should be approached. In this volume, experts in game music provide their responses to these issues. This book suggests a variety of new approaches to the study of game music. In the course of developing ways of conceptualizing and analyzing game music it explicitly considers other critical issues including the distinction between game play and music play, how notions of diegesis are complicated by video game interactivity, the importance of cinema aesthetics in game music, the technicalities of game music production and the relationships between game music and art music traditions. This collection is accessible, yet theoretically substantial and complex. It draws upon a diverse array of perspectives and presents new research which will have a significant impact upon the way that game music is studied. The volume represents a major development in game musicology and will be indispensable for both academic researchers and students of game music.

Michiel Kamp is Junior Assistant Professor of Music at Utrecht University. Tim Summers is a Teaching Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Mark Sweeney completed his D.Phil. thesis in musicology at Hertford College, Oxford. He was previously lecturer in music at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Genre, Music & Sound
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	748 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
ISBN-10	1-78179-197-X / 178179197X
ISBN-13	978-1-78179-197-4 / 9781781791974
Zustand	Neuware