Playing along : digital games, YouTube, and virtual performance / / Kiri Miller
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| Autore: |
Miller Kiri
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| Titolo: |
Playing along : digital games, YouTube, and virtual performance / / Kiri Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 794.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Interactive videos |
| Popular music | |
| Video game music | |
| Video games - Social aspects | |
| Video games | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; Introduction: Playing Along; PART ONE: Playing Along with Grand Theft Auto; 1. Straight Outta Ganton: Virtual Tourism, Fieldwork, and Performance; 2. Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in San Andreas; PART TWO: Playing Along with Guitar Hero and Rock Band; 3. How Musical Is Guitar Hero?; 4. Just Add Performance: Staging Schizophonia; PART THREE: Playing Along with Communities of Practice; 5. Music Lessons 2.0; 6. Amateur-to-Amateur; Endgame; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 th |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Playing Along |
| ISBN: | 0-19-992991-2 |
| 1-283-42810-5 | |
| 9786613428103 | |
| 0-19-992124-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827304803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Oxford music/media series.