{"id":9476,"date":"2019-11-26T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:52:52","slug":"music-and-culture-graduate-sam-mcewan-on-video-game-soundtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/2019\/music-and-culture-graduate-sam-mcewan-on-video-game-soundtracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and Culture Graduate Sam McEwan on Video Game Soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Music and Culture Graduate Sam McEwan on Video Game Soundtracks\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/Sam-McEwan-240x364.png\" alt=\"Sam McEwan\" class=\"wp-image-9478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/Sam-McEwan-240x364.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/Sam-McEwan-240x364-160x243.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Video games like <em>Super Mario Bros<\/em> and <em>The Legend of Zeld<\/em>a hold great nostalgic significance throughout society. But there is one aspect of video games that resonates with almost everyone: their soundtracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam McEwan, who will be graduating from the <a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/cu-programs\/music-and-culture-masters\/\">Music and Culture program<\/a> this fall, was researching the intersections of nostalgia, participatory culture and live symphonic performance, specifically through the close ethnographic study of the touring organization called <em>Video Games Live<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cResearch on nostalgia within various interdisciplinary fields such as cultural studies has recently given much more attention to the relationships between nostalgic affect and video games,&nbsp;of which the game\u2019s soundtrack plays a significant role,\u201d shared McEwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full article at:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2019\/grad-research-the-symphonic-production-of-video-game-soundtracks\/\">https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2019\/grad-research-the-symphonic-production-of-video-game-soundtracks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games like Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda hold great nostalgic significance throughout society. But there is one aspect of video games that resonates with almost everyone: their soundtracks. Sam McEwan, who will be graduating from the Music and Culture program this fall, was researching the intersections of nostalgia, participatory culture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14113,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/14113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}