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Gender, Race and Religion in Video Game Music

By Thomas B. Yee

Analyzing music’s contributions to video games’ narrative and thematic meanings, this book focuses specifically on the musical representation of three demographic diversity traits. Adopting a narratologist orientation to supplement existing ludological scholarship, these analyses apply music semiotics to crucial modern-day issues such as the representation of gender, race and religion in video games.

Containing twenty-five detailed analytical case studies of musical representation in video game music, it sets out theoretical and conceptual frameworks beneficial for interpreting musical meaning from video game soundtracks. Though players and commentators may be tempted to view a game’s soundtrack as mere background music, this research demonstrates video game music’s social relevance as a major factor impacting players’ cultural attitudes, values and beliefs.

Part of the Studies in Game Sound and Music series.
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