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Table of Contents:

• Analysing video game music : sources, methods and a case study / Tim Summers
• Analysing game musical immersion : the ALI Model / Isabella van Elferen
• Modularity in video game music / Elizabeth Medina-Gray
• Suture and peritexts : music beyond gameplay and diegesis / Michiel Kamp
• "It's a-me, Mario!" : playing with video game music / Melanie Fritsch
• Game and play in music video games / Anahid Kassabian and Freya Jarman
• "Listening" through digital interaction in Björk's Biophilia / Samantha Blickhan
• Palimpsest, pragmatism and the aesthetics of genre transformation : composing the hybrid score to Electronic Art's Need for speed shift 2 : Unleashed / Stephen Baysted
• Isaac's silence : purposive aesthetics in Dead space / Mark Sweeney
• Remixed metaphors : manipulating classical music and its meanings in video games / William Gibbons.

Contributors:

Kamp, Michiel , editor

Summers, Tim, 1987- , editor

Sweeney, Mark, 1988- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Related Series:

Genre, music and sound

Subjects:

Video game music — History and criticism

Video game music

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

ML3540.7 .L83 2016

ISBNs:

9781781791974 (hb)
178179197X (hb)
9781781791981 (pb)
1781791988 (pb)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016002616

OCLC Numbers:

919104794