New Features: Facebook Comments and Guest Contributors

We are pleased to announce that we have implemented two new features to our website, the ability for Facebook users to comment on our blog posts, and a special form for submitting guest contributions (http://www.ludomusicology.org/contribute/). To comment on our posts, click on the post title to view the post in full; comments will be available at the bottom of the page. Comments will be moderated and not all guest contributions will necessarily be published, but we welcome any ludomusicologically-pertinent submissions.

We are pleased to announce that our first guest contributor will be Kyle Roderick (Texas Christian University), the Editor-in-chief at Musicology Memes.

Ludo 2014 Keynote: William Cheng

We are very excited to announce that the second keynote address at Ludo 2014 will be given by William Cheng, of Harvard University. Will’s most familiar ludomusicological work to-date is his ethnography, “Role-Playing toward a Virtual Musical Democracy in The Lord of the Rings Online,” Ethnomusicology 56:1 (2012), 31-62. His first book, Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination, is expected from Oxford University Press just weeks before the conference date.

Ludo 2014

We are very excited to announce that the Ludo 2014 international conference on videogame music will take place at the University of Chichester (UK) from Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th April 2014. A Call for Papers with further details will be distributed in due course, and more information will be made available on our website as soon as possible.

Make sure you save the date to your calendars now—we look forward to seeing you there!

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