"How Musical Is Guitar Hero" -- Kiri Miller

Tuesday, March 30 5:30pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Kiri Miller
"How Musical is Guitar Hero?"
Abstract:
How are games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band shaping players' concepts of musicality, creativity, and embodied performance? This talk explores new forms of musicking at the intersection of the "virtual” and the “real,” showing how these games might illuminate the changing nature of amateur musicianship in a technologically mediated world.

Bio: Kiri Miller is Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University. She holds the Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from Harvard University and is the author of Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Her current book project focuses on virtual performance, including case studies on Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and music pedagogy on YouTube.