Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game

The Way It Never Sounded

Andra Ivănescu

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
22 January 2019

Film, TV & Radio; Easy listening, MOR music; Popular culture

Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture

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.

By: Andra Ivănescu
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2019 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9783030042806
ISBN 10: 3030042804
Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
Pages: 165
Publication Date: 22 January 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The Ghosts of Popular Music Past and Video Games Future.- 2. Games on Media: Beyond Remediation.- 3. Games on Society: Playable Anxieties.- 4. Temporal Anomalies: Alternative Pasts and Alternative Futures.- 5. Memories of Mediated Pasts and Hopes for Mediated Futures.

Andra Ivănescu is Lecturer in Game Studies at Brunel University London, UK.

Reviews for Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game: The Way It Never Sounded

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)