Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros
Schartmann, Andrew2015
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Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops - the sterile products of a lab environment - replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew Schartmann takes us through the various external factors (e.g., the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo's marketing tactics) that coalesced into a ripe environment in which Kondo's musical experiments could thrive. He then delves into the music itself, searching for reasons why our hearts still dance to the 'primitive' 8-bit tunes of a bygone era.
Main title:
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros / Andrew Schartmann.
Author:
Schartmann, Andrew, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Collation:
160 pages ; 17 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781628928532 (pbk)
Dewey class:
781.54781.54 SCH
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1789845