Unlimited Replays

Video Games and Classical Music

AvWilliam Gibbons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from interactive iPad games. World-renowned classical orchestras frequently perform concerts of game music to sold-out audiences. But what do such combinations of art and entertainment reveal about the cultural value we place on these media? Can classical music ever be video game music, and can game music ever be classical? Delving into the shifting and often contradictory cultural definitions that emerge when classical music meets video games, Replay Value offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-10
Mått:236 x 160 x 17 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Music/Media Series
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190265250

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Film inom Kultur
Musik: stilar och genrer inom Kultur
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Mer om författaren

William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University, where he is also Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera and Fin-de-siècle Paris and co-editor of Music in Video Games: Studying Play.

Recensioner i media

Unlimited Replays occupies a significant place in game music scholarship. It is the first book devoted to ever-intriguing instances of classical music in video games, and through addressing that topic, it seeks to build a bridge from ludomusicology toward more longstanding fields of enquiry ... an accessible, thoughtful, and thought-provoking work on a topic of interest across academic disciplines, and beyond -- classical-music concert programmers and critics might find much to consider here in regard to the music's future, for instance. Indeed, the book could be recommended to almost anybody with an interest in its topic.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Press Start to Replay Chapter 1: Terms and ConditionsChapter 2: Playing with Music History Chapter 3: A Requiem for Schrödinger's CatChapter 4: Allusions of GrandeurChapter 5: A Clockwork HomageChapter 6: Remixed Metaphors Chapter 7: Love in Many Monstrous FormsChapter 8: Violent Offenders and Violin DefendersChapter 9: Playing Chopin Chapter 10: Gamifying Classical MusicChapter 11: Classifying Game Music Conclusion