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‘Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music’ is a new volume that presents a musicological approach to video game music. Editors of the book are Michiel Kamp (Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ), Tim Summers (Cambridge ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ), and Mark Sweeney (Oxford ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ). Previously, the editors organised a number of conferences on the same topic in Utrecht and the UK.

The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions concerning how video game music should be approached. In this volume, experts in game music provide their responses to these issues.

New approaches

This book suggests a variety of new approaches to the study of game music. In the course of developing ways of conceptualizing and analyzing game music it explicitly considers other critical issues including the distinction between game play and music play, how notions of diegesis are complicated by video game interactivity, the importance of cinema aesthetics in game music, the technicalities of game music production and the relationships between game music and art music traditions.