Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game The Way It Never Sounded /

• Main Author: Ivănescu, Andra (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Music.; Historiography.; Audio-Visual Culture.; Memory Studies.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 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.