The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing (Routledge Research in Music) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103217224X ISBN 13: 9781032172248

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between animation, video games, and music and sound, bringing together a range of multidisciplinary lenses. In 14 chapters, the contributors consider similarities and differences in how music and sound structure video games and animation, as well as the animation within video games, and explore core topics of nostalgia, adaptation, gender, and sexuality. Offering fresh insights into the aesthetic interplay of animation, video games, and sound, this volume provides a gateway into new areas of study that will be of interest to scholars and students across musicology, animation studies, game studies, and media studies more broadly.

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Scoggin holds a PhD in musicology from Boston University, USA, and specialises in music in American animation.

Dana Plank is Adjunct Lecturer in music history for the Hartt School, University of Hartford, and The Ohio State University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103217224X
• ISBN 13: 9781032172248
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Scoggin Lisa, Plank Dana