Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Landmark Timeline of Video Game Music
- Foreword: The Collaborative Art of Game Music
- Introduction
- Part I Chiptunes
- Part II Creating and Programming Game Music
- Part III Analytical Approaches to Video Game Music
- Part IV Realities, Perception and Psychology
- Part V Game Music, Contexts and Identities
- Part VI Beyond the Game
- 24 Producing Game Music Concerts
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Part V - Game Music, Contexts and Identities
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Landmark Timeline of Video Game Music
- Foreword: The Collaborative Art of Game Music
- Introduction
- Part I Chiptunes
- Part II Creating and Programming Game Music
- Part III Analytical Approaches to Video Game Music
- Part IV Realities, Perception and Psychology
- Part V Game Music, Contexts and Identities
- Part VI Beyond the Game
- 24 Producing Game Music Concerts
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Though video game music is a distinct type of music for the moving image, game music does not exist in isolation. It engages with a huge range of contextual issues. That includes other musical traditions and styles, especially when it borrows, or draws inspiration from, pre-existing music. Beyond (or sometimes through) musical citation and allusion, video game music is also inevitably connected to social and cultural concerns.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music , pp. 319 - 388Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Cook, Karen M. ‘Beyond (the) Halo: Plainchant in Video Games’, in Studies in Medievalism XXVII: Authenticity, Medievalism, Music, ed. Fugelso, Karl. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2018, 183–200.Google Scholar
Gibbons, William. Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Ivănescu, Andra. ‘Beneath a Steel Sky: A Musical Characterisation of Class Structure.’ The Computer Games Journal 7 (2018): 231–42.Google Scholar
Miller, Kiri. ‘Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in “Grand Theft Auto.”’ Ethnomusicology 51, no. 3 (2007): 402–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Plank, Dana. ‘Bodies in Play: Representations of Disability in 8- and 16-bit Video Game Soundscapes’. PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018.Google Scholar