Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes
About this ebook
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.
About the author
Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Her research addresses how and why contemporary artists remix and recycle sounds, music, and texts encoded with environmental knowledge and the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities and practices of listening to the internet. With Paula Harper and Christa Bentley, she co-edited the collection Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans.
Elizabeth Hambleton is a librarian and an instructor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, where she teaches audio for video games. Her research in video games focuses on virtual world soundscapes and sound design.
