Nostalgia and Videogame Music: A Primer of Case Studies, Theories and Analyses for the Player-Academic
The first multi-disciplinary study of the connection between memory and music in video games.

This book allows readers to understand the relationships and memories they often form around games, and music is central to this process. The quest into the past begins with this book, a map that leads to the intersection between nostalgia and videogame music. Informed by research on musicology, memory, and practices of gaming culture, this edited volume discusses different forms of nostalgia, considers how videogames display their relation to those forms, and explores the ways theoretically self-conscious positions can be found in games. An important scholarly addition to the burgeoning field of ludomusicology, this book will appeal to researchers, educators, practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, and videogame fans and players alike.
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Nostalgia and Videogame Music: A Primer of Case Studies, Theories and Analyses for the Player-Academic
The first multi-disciplinary study of the connection between memory and music in video games.

This book allows readers to understand the relationships and memories they often form around games, and music is central to this process. The quest into the past begins with this book, a map that leads to the intersection between nostalgia and videogame music. Informed by research on musicology, memory, and practices of gaming culture, this edited volume discusses different forms of nostalgia, considers how videogames display their relation to those forms, and explores the ways theoretically self-conscious positions can be found in games. An important scholarly addition to the burgeoning field of ludomusicology, this book will appeal to researchers, educators, practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, and videogame fans and players alike.
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The first multi-disciplinary study of the connection between memory and music in video games.

This book allows readers to understand the relationships and memories they often form around games, and music is central to this process. The quest into the past begins with this book, a map that leads to the intersection between nostalgia and videogame music. Informed by research on musicology, memory, and practices of gaming culture, this edited volume discusses different forms of nostalgia, considers how videogames display their relation to those forms, and explores the ways theoretically self-conscious positions can be found in games. An important scholarly addition to the burgeoning field of ludomusicology, this book will appeal to researchers, educators, practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, and videogame fans and players alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789385519
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Publication date: 06/09/2022
Series: Studies in Game Sound
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Can Aksoy is professor of English at Los Angeles City College. 


Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey is a ludomusicologist specializing in the narrative, continuity, and world-building functions of pre-existing music in videogames.


Vincent E. Rone teaches at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio and directs music at Archangel Gabriel Parish in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Dedication and Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Vincent E. Rone 1

Part 1 Articulating Nostalgia and Videogame Music 23

1 A Player's Guide to the Psychology of Nostalgia and Videogame Music Michael Vitalino Vincent E. Rone 24

2 And the Music Keeps on Playing: Nostalgia in Paraludical Videogame Music Consumption Sebastian Diaz-Gasca 46

Part 2 Objectifying Nostalgia and Videogame Music 67

3 My Childhood Is in Your Hands: Videogame Concerts as Commodified and Tangible Nostalgic Experiences Elizabeth Hunt 68

4 Remembering the Rules: Immersive Nostalgia in Final Fantasy Leitmotifs Can Aksoy 85

5 The Sounds of 8-Bit Nostalgia: The Resurgence of Chiptune Music in Contemporary Film-Based Videogames Jonathan Waxman 107

Part 3 Subjectifying Nostalgia and videogame music 127

6 A Link between Worlds: Nostalgia and Liminality in Musical Covers of The Legend of Zelda Alec Nunes 128

7 You Unlock This Game with the Key of Imagination: The Twilight Zone: The Game (2014), Musical Parody, and the Sound of Nostalgia Reba A. Wissner 144

8 "This Game Stinks": Musical Parody and Nostalgia in Earth Bound Justin Sextro 163

Part 4 Confronting Nostalgia and Videogame Music 185

9 Playing Music Videos: Three Case Studies of Interaction between Performing Videogames and Remembering Music Videos Brent Ferguson T. J. Laws-Nicola 186

10 Remembering Tomorrow: Music and Nostalgia in Fallout's Retro-Future Jessica Kizzire 206

11 Confronting Nostalgia for Racism in American Popular Music via BioShock Infinite Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey 225

Notes on Contributors 247

Index 251

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