'Music in Video Games'- Study Afternoon Seminar

Time:: 15:00
Date:: 21 October 2014
Venue:: Building 2, Room 1083 Music University of Southampton Highfield Campus SO17 1BJ

For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Hettie Malcomson on 023 8059 4400 or email H.Malcomson@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Part of the Music Research Seminar series - an afternoon with four notable speakers from Universities in the UK and USA.

All welcome - free admission.

Kevin Donnelly (University of Southampton): ‘Play is Purposeless Art: What is Video Game Music?

William Gibbons (Texas Christian University): ‘Remixed Metaphors: Manipulating Classical Music and its Meanings in Video Games’

Tim Summers (University of Oxford): ‘Playing against the Rules: Game Music's Challenge to Musicology'

Mark Sweeney (University of Oxford): ‘Songs of Skyrim: Folk Music and Identity in The Elder Scrolls V’

Further details to follow.

Kevin Donnelly ,Reader in Film.

William Gibbons , Texas Christian University. Assistant Professor of Musicology.

Timothy Summers , University of Oxford. Lecturer in Music.

Mark Sweeney , University of Oxford. Research Student.