Acknowledgement
The author wishes to acknowledge the contribution that Aaron Phillips made to this article by allowing the author to try his Guitar Hero and discover that it wasn't nearly as easy as it looks.
Notes
1. Joy Press, “Like a Virgin Megastore, Shut for the Very Last Time,” Salon.com, March 12, 2009, http://www.salon.com/news/brand_graveyard/feature/2009/03/12/virgin/index.html (accessed 3/31/09).
2. Mark Sommer, “The Day the Music Died: QRS Has Ended Production of Player‐piano Rolls,” The Buffalo News, January 3, 2009, http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/538967.html (accessed 3/31/09).
3. “Guitar Hero 3 Through the Fire and Flames” from the Ellen Show, YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5a5aqkRcsQ (accessed 4/2/09).
4. Robert D. Putnam, “Thinking About Social Change in America” Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 16–28.
5. Jeff Howe, “Here It Goes Again,” Wired 17, no. 3 (March 23, 2009): 19–20.
6. Steven Wells, comment posted January 6, 2009, The Guardian Music Blog, http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan/06/popandrock (accessed 3/31/09).
7. Ibid.
8. Howe, “Here It Goes Again,” 19.