Overview
- Focuses on the relationship between music, video games, and broader social and cultural contexts
- Accessible to both academic and casual readers
- Engages with popular culture on multiple levels, making it of interest to undergraduates in all fields related to popular culture, including video games, music, film, and general media
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture (PSAVC)
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This book looks at the uses of popular music in the newly-redefined category of the nostalgia game, exploring the relationship between video games, popular music, nostalgia, and socio-cultural contexts. History, gender, race, and media all make significant appearances in this interdisciplinary work, as it explores what some of the most critically acclaimed games of the past two decades (including both AAA titles like Fallout and BioShock, and more cult releases like Gone Home and Evoland) tell us about our relationship to our past and our future. Appropriated music is the common thread throughout these chapters, engaging these broader discourses in heterogeneous ways. This volume offers new perspectives on how the intersection between popular music, nostalgia, and video games, can be examined, revealing much about our relationship to the past and our hopes for the future.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Reviews
“Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game supplies an interesting discourse into a region where one would not expect popular music and its heritage to be forcefully present. … offers some insights on how variations of ‘authenticity,’ ‘memory,’ and ‘reproduction’ work in this genre.” (A. Ebert, popcultureshelf.com, May 24, 2019)
“To illuminate how postmillennial video games use popular music to construct nostalgia, Ivănescu persuasively guides the reader through a wealth of examples, from indie titles like Gone Home to the blockbuster BioShock and Fallout franchises. This welcome and readable book skillfully draws together approaches from cultural studies, film studies, and ludomusicology, and represents a major contribution to the study of video games and their music.” (William Gibbons, Texas Christian University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andra Ivănescu is Lecturer in Game Studies at Brunel University London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game
Book Subtitle: The Way It Never Sounded
Authors: Andra Ivănescu
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04281-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04280-6Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04281-3Published: 11 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6354
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6362
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 165
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, Music, Memory Studies