William Gibbons

Unlimited Replays

Video Games and Classical Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Classical music is everywhere in video games. But what does it reveal about the cultural value we place on entertainment? Replay Value offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780190265267
• ISBN-10: 0190265264
• Artikelnr.: 50209121

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Press Start to Replay
Chapter 1: Terms and Conditions
Chapter 2: Playing with Music History
Chapter 3: A Requiem for Schrödinger's Cat
Chapter 4: Allusions of Grandeur
Chapter 5: A Clockwork Homage
Chapter 6: Remixed Metaphors
Chapter 7: Love in Many Monstrous Forms
Chapter 8: Violent Offenders and Violin Defenders
Chapter 9: Playing Chopin
Chapter 10: Gamifying Classical Music
Chapter 11: Classifying Game Music
Conclusion