Sound Play

by William Cheng

Book Overview

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199969965
• ISBN13: 9780199969968
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"