Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo

by Roger Moseley

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How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520291247
• ISBN13: 9780520291249
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"