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OverviewVideo game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This Element proposes three areas of queerness, each representing different relationships between 'queer design' and 'queer engagement', ranging fromunintentionally resistive to explicit engagement with identity. First, this Element examines musical structures that provide queer temporal alternatives to normative linear development, and interactive systems that reframe the power relationship between musical material and listener. Second, it considers 'retro' or 'chiptune' timbres that queer notions of technological progress to be improvements, rejecting chrononormativity. Finally, the Element discusses music that queers the self/other binary of identity. Games present ways of listening to, engaging with and understanding music that provide opportunities to challenge inherited assumptions and reductive or monolithic values, practices and identities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tim Summers (Royal Holloway, University of London)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Weight: 0.135kg ISBN: 9781009371407ISBN 10: 1009371401 Pages: 75 Publication Date: 03 August 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Structure: queer time and the power of imagined alternatives; 2. Timbre: queering technological progress and anti-chrononormativity; 3. Identity and queer anti-essentialism; Conclusions; References.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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