Unlimited replays: video games and classical music
William Gibbons
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright:
- ©2018
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- Summary:
- 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, Unlimited replays offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Push start to replay
- Terms and conditions
- Playing with music history
- A requiem for Schrödinger's cat
- Allusions of grandeur
- A clockwork homage
- Remixed metaphors
- Love in thousand monstrous forms
- Violent offenders and violin defenders
- Playing Chopin
- Gamifying classical music
- Classifying game music
- Conclusion: The end is nigh.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- English text.
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Physical Characteristics:
- illustration
- Call Numbers:
- ML3540.7 .G532 2018
- ISBNs:
- 9780190265250 (hardback, alkaline paper)
0190265256 (hardback, alkaline paper)
9780190265267 (paperback, alkaline paper)
0190265264 (paperback, alkaline paper)
9780190265304 (oxford scholarship online) [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2017043127
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1004206761