{"product_id":"sound-play-video-games-and-the-musical-imagination-9780199969968","title":"Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Cheng\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnomusicology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVideo games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? \u003cem\u003eSound Play\u003c\/em\u003e explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, \u003cem\u003eSound Play\u003c\/em\u003e synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning \u003cem\u003eFinal Fantasy VI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSilent Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFallout 3\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings Online\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTeam Fortress 2\u003c\/em\u003e, this book\u003cbr\u003einsists 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Richard Leppert \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVideo Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889226530967,"sku":"9780199969968","price":14636.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199969968.webp?v=1781175082","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sound-play-video-games-and-the-musical-imagination-9780199969968","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}