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Volume 1, Issue 1

Winter 2020

EISSN 2578-3432

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THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
COLLOQUY: CANONS OF GAME MUSIC AND SOUND
INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS
BOOK REVIEWS

THE EDITOR

Editorial Introduction

ARTICLES

Battle Hymn of the God-Slayers: Troping Rock and Sacred Music Topics in Xenoblade Chronicles

Thomas B. Yee

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Gray Areas: Analyzing Navigable Narratives in the Not-So-Uncanny Valley Between Soundwalks, Video Games, and Literary Computer Games

Elizabeth Hambleton

The 1-Bit Instrument: The Fundamentals of 1-Bit Synthesis, Their Implementational Implications, and Instrumental Possibilities

Blake Troise

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COLLOQUY: CANONS OF GAME MUSIC AND SOUND

Rewritable Memory: Concerts, Canons, and Game Music History

William Gibbons

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On Canons as Music and Muse

Julianne Grasso

The Difficult, Uncomfortable, and Imperative Conversations Needed in Game Music and Sound Studies

Hyeonjin Park

Canon Anxiety?

Karen M. Cook

INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

Game Sound: Reverberations

Karen Collins

Ludomusicology and the New Drastic

Isabella Van Elferen

BOOK REVIEWS

Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music, by William Gibbons

Jonathan Godsall

The Problem with Players: A Response to Jonathan Godsall

William Gibbons

Bits and Pieces: A History of Chiptunes, by Kenneth B. McAlpine

Peter Smucker

A Response to Peter Smucker

Kenneth McAlpine

A Ludomusicologist Goes to the Museum: A Review of Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Martine Mussies

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