MASSmcr are pleased to welcome you to this guest lecture as part of their 'Digital Worlds: Music, Sound and Sonic Spaces' lecture series. All are very welcome to attend.

Dr Phillip Kirby, School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London.

Digital geographies and musical geographies are proliferating. This talk considers a topic at the intersection of both: videogame music. It argues that, through attention to such music, geographical approaches to videogames, and to music, can be expanded. Specifically, it argues that instrumental score, increasingly employed in major videogame franchises, should be subject to greater focus. Close analysis of instrumental score offers new ways of understanding the spatiality of musical style, structure and form. This talk illustrates the potential of greater geographical engagement with instrumental music through the case study of the Legend of Zelda: one of the most popular videogame franchises

Bio: Philip Kirby is lecturer in social science at the School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London. His research considers the politics and construction of identity, both in practice and in popular culture. It has two main themes: 1) social and historical understandings of specific learning difficulties; 2) geopolitical perspectives on disability, gender and nationality in popular culture.