By Kiri Miller
Why do not Guitar Hero avid gamers simply choose up actual guitars? What occurs whilst thousands of individuals play the function of a tender black gang member in Grand robbery vehicle: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based song classes altering the character of novice musicianship? This e-book is ready play, functionality, and participatory tradition within the electronic age. Miller indicates how games and social media are bridging digital and visceral event, growing dispersed groups who forge significant connections by way of "playing alongside" with pop culture. Playing Along unearths how electronic media are dropped at undergo within the transmission of embodied wisdom: how a Grand robbery Auto participant makes use of a digital radio to listen to together with her avatar's ears; how a Guitar Hero participant channels the event of a stay rock performer; and the way a starting guitar pupil interprets a two-dimensional, pre-recorded on-line tune lesson into third-dimensional actual perform and an intimate courting with a far off instructor. via a chain of attractive ethnographic case experiences, Miller demonstrates that our daily stories with interactive electronic media are steadily reworking our realizing of musicality, creativity, play, and participation.
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