Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford Music / Media) - Softcover

Book 2 of 26: Oxford Music/Media

Miller, Kiri

  • 4.00 out of 5 stars
    14 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780199753468: Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford Music / Media)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199753466 ISBN 13: 9780199753468
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199753466
ISBN 13 
9780199753468
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272
Rating
  • 4.00 out of 5 stars
    14 ratings by Goodreads

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780199753451: Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford Music / Media)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0199753458 ISBN 13:  9780199753451
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012
Hardcover