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100 1 Cheng, William.
245 10 Sound play :|bvideo games and the musical imagination /
|cWilliam Cheng.
246 30 Video games and the musical imagination.
260 Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c2014.
300 xviii, 240 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm.
520 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.
650 0 Video games.
650 0 Video game music.
