Scoring Alien Worlds: World music mashups in 21st-Century tv, film and video games

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dc.contributor.authorStock, Jonathan P. J.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-04T16:10:21Z
dc.date.available2022-11-04T16:10:21Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-21
dc.date.updated2022-11-03T14:12:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis article provides three case studies of the use of world music resources to build alien worlds in mainstream screen media with Sci-Fi or Fantasy settings. The case studies—the TV series Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, the film Avatar and the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) video game World of Warcraft— show how composers and associated music professionals in the early twenty-first century increasingly draw on such sonic materials to generate a rich sense of sonic otherness and note the means they employ to sidestep such music’s existing geographical and cultural references. Each case study explores a contrasting subject position—composer, music consultant and consumer—to better trace not only the creation of such soundtracks but also what senses disparate groups of ordinary listeners subsequently make of them. The examples suggest that outside the sphere of big-budget cinema there is a growing confidence in both the creation and reception of such sonic projections, and that, when sufficiently attracted by what they hear, listeners may actively seek out ways to follow-up on the expressive characterisations put forward in such soundtracks. Three broad types of mashup are uncovered, those that work with world music ingredients by insinuation, integration and creolisation.en
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dc.identifier.citationStock, J. P. J. (2021) 'Scoring Alien Worlds: World Music Mashups in 21st-Century TV, Film and Video Games', Malaysian Journal Of Music, 10 (2), pp. 13-28. https://doi.org/10.37134/mjm.vol10.2.2.2021en
dc.identifier.doi10.37134/mjm.vol10.2.2.2021en
dc.identifier.endpage28en
dc.identifier.issn2600-9366
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleMalaysian Journal of Musicen
dc.identifier.startpage13en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13818
dc.identifier.volume10en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPejabat Karang Mengarang (UPSI Press)en
dc.relation.urihttps://ejournal.upsi.edu.my/index.php/MJM/issue/view/390
dc.rights© 2021 Pejabat Karang Mengarang (UPSI Press)en
dc.subjectFilm musicen
dc.subjectTV musicen
dc.subjectVideo game musicen
dc.subjectMashupsen
dc.subjectWorld musicen
dc.titleScoring Alien Worlds: World music mashups in 21st-Century tv, film and video gamesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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