Playing Along :: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance.

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 p...

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1. Verfasser: Miller, Kiri
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford music/media series.
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Zusammenfassung: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 be.
Beschreibung:Wy.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (273 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199921249
0199921245
1283428105
9781283428101
9786613428103
6613428108
0199929912
9780199929917

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