What do you imagine in sound and imagery when thinking about video games and music education? A theme I’ve explored throughout my writing and teaching related to video games and music education (O’Leary & Tobias, 2017; Tobias, 2012; Tobias &…
O’Leary, J., & Tobias, E. S. (2017). Sonic participatory cultures within, through, and around video games. In R. Mantie & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of music making and leisure (pp. 541-564). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.…
Tobias, E. S., & O’Leary, J. (2017). Video games. In The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education (pp. 263-272). Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781315686431 Video Games (in the context of music learning and teaching) In 2017, Jared O’Leary and I had our chapter, Video…
Tobias, E. S. (2012). Let’s play! Learning music through video games and virtual worlds. In G. McPherson & G. Welch (Eds.), Oxford handbook of music education (Vol. 2, pp. 531-548). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093 This chapter examines…
Almost a year ago I posted about the possible trend of students wanting to perform video game music. With more and more professional orchestras playing music from video games it seems like the trend will eventually end up in our…