{"product_id":"keys-to-play-9780520291249","title":"Keys to Play","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/luminos.16\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e to learn more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, \u003ci\u003eKeys to Play\u003c\/i\u003e spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, \u003ci\u003eKeys to Play\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Roger Moseley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48294588416251,"sku":"9780520291249","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_23d5e2a5-d5fd-4d4e-8aba-d65c2328ddd0.jpg?v=1771700657","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/keys-to-play-9780520291249","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}