Unlimited Replays - Video Games and Classical Music

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Gibbons, William (Assistant Professor of Musicolog Gibbons, William (Assistant Professor of Musicology Gibbons
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780190265267
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026526-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford Music/Media Series; Oxford Music/Media Series; Oxford Music/Media
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory