Book/Printed Material Keys to play : music as a ludic medium from Apollo to Nintendo

Title

• Keys to play : music as a ludic medium from Apollo to Nintendo

Summary

• "How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart an archaeology of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book's diverse objects of inquiry--from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles--enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard's topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new."--Provided by publisher.

Names

• Moseley, Roger, 1974- author.

Created / Published

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
• ©2016

Headings

• -  Music--Performance--History
• -  Keyboards (Music)--History
• -  Play (Philosophy)
• -  Video games--Psychological aspects

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

• 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

• ML457

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2016015714

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2016015714

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2016015714

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