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McAlpine, Kenneth B., author.
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Video game music -- History and criticism.
Chiptunes -- History and criticism.
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Bits and pieces : a ...
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Bits and pieces : a history of chiptunes / Kenneth B. McAlpine.
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McAlpine, Kenneth B., author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Video game music -- History and criticism.
Chiptunes -- History and criticism.
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9780190496104 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
019049610X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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308 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Contents:
The Atari VCS, the rise of the machines -- The ZX Spectrum, the sound of one bit -- The Commodore 64, for the masses, not the classes -- Nintendo's NES, a shop of strange and wonderful things -- The ultimate soundtracker? -- Going underground -- The Game Boy, a handheld revolution -- Netlabels and real-world festivals -- Fakebit, fans and 8-bit covers -- Chips with everything.
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"Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers developed code that enabled the limited hardware of those early 8-bit machines to perform musical feats that they were never designed to achieve. In time, that combination of hardware and creative code came to define a unique 8-bit sound that imprinted itself on a generation of gamers. For a new generation of musicians, this music has currency through the chipscene, a vibrant musical subculture that repurposes obsolete gaming hardware. It's performative: raw and edgy, loaded with authenticity and driven by a strong DIY ethic. It's more punk than Pac-Man, and yet, it's part of that same story of ingenuity and invention; 8-bit hardware is no longer a retired gaming console, but a quirky and characterful musical instrument. Taking these consoles to the stage, musicians fuse 8-bit sounds with other musical styles - drum'n'bass, jungle, techno and house - to create a unique contemporary sound. Analyzing musical structures and technological methods used with chiptune, Bits and Pieces traces the simple beeps of the earliest arcade games, through the murky shadows of the digital underground, to global festivals and movie soundtracks."--Publisher's description.
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