Music in the Western : Notes from the Frontier

SUMARIO. 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