Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series)

Synopsis

Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games brings together a range of perspectives that explore how music and sound in video games interact with virtual and real environments, often in innovative and unexpected ways. Drawing on a range of game case studies and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors consider the sonic environment in games as its own storytelling medium. Highlighting how dynamic video game soundscapes respond to players’ movements, engage them in collaborative composition, and actively contribute to worldbuilding, the chapters discuss topics including genre conventions around soundscape design, how sonic environments shape players’ perceptions, how game sound and music model ecological processes and nonhuman relationships, and issues of cultural and geographic representation.Together, the essays in this volume bring game music and sound into the environmental humanities and transform our understanding of sonic environments as an essential part of storytelling in interactive media. Engaging a wide variety of game genres and communities of play, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, critical game studies, popular culture, and sound studies.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040135372

Related ISBNs:

9781040135303, 9781032230320, 9781003275305

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

11/06/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Kate Galloway and Elizabeth Hambleton

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Music

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kate Galloway

Edited by:

Elizabeth Hambleton