Music in the Western: Notes From the Frontier
- Author: Kalinak, Kathryn
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Contents
- Introduction Kathryn Kalinak
- Part I : Music in the Classical Hollywood Studio Film
- 1. The Cowboy Chorus: Narrative and Cultural Functions of the Western Title Song Corey K. Creekmur
- 2. "A Cowboy Has to Sing": Walt Disney, John Ford, and Sons of the Pioneers Ross Care
- 3. Reinventing the Western Film Score: Jerome Moross and The Big Country Mariana Whitmer
- 4. Silencing the Truth: Music and Identity in The Unforgiven Ben Winters
- 5. A Tale of Two Cowgirls: Song, Western Novelty Acts, and 1950s Hollywood Caryl Flinn
- Part 2 : Westerns Outside Hollywood
- 6. Innovation and Imitation: An Analysis of the Soundscape of Akira Kurosawa's Chambara Westerns Yuna de Lannoy
- 7. The Dollars Trilogy: "There are two kinds of western heroes, my friend!" Charles Leinberger
- 8. Europe Cannibalizes the Western: Ravenous K.J. Donnelly
- 9. "How . . . were we going to make a picture that's better than this?": Crossing Borders from East to West in Rashomon and The Outrage Kathryn Kalinak
- Part 3 : The Contemporary Western
- 10. From the Barroom Floor: American Song, Saloon Culture, and Wild Bill , or "Did you touch my hat?" Peter Stanfield
- 11. Musical Worlds of the Millennial Western: Dead Man and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Claudia Gorbman
- 12. Mountains, Music, and Murder: Scoring the American West in There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men Matthew McDonald