Music in the Western: Notes From the Frontier

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