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Miller, Kiri

 
9780199753468: Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford Music/Media)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0199753466 ISBN 13 : 9780199753468
Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012

Synopsis

Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory culture in the digital age. Miller shows how video games and social media are bridging virtual and visceral experience, creating dispersed communities who forge meaningful connections by "playing along" with popular culture. Playing Along reveals how digital media are brought to bear in the transmission of embodied knowledge: how a Grand Theft Auto player uses a virtual radio to hear with her avatar's ears; how a Guitar Hero player channels the experience of a live rock performer; and how a beginning guitar student translates a two-dimensional, pre-recorded online music lesson into three-dimensional physical practice and an intimate relationship with a distant teacher. Through a series of engaging ethnographic case studies, Miller demonstrates that our everyday experiences with interactive digital media are gradually transforming our understanding of musicality, creativity, play, and participation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kiri Miller is the Manning Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University. She is the author of Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (2008). Her research stands at the intersection of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and digital media studies. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the American Council of Learned Societies.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, USA
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199753466
ISBN 13 
9780199753468
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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