Music in the Western : Notes From the Frontier

ISBN-13: 9780415882262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Kathryn Kalinak

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Notes From the Frontier. Music in the Western Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and their ideological import, especially in terms of the westerns construction of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity. The Hollywood western is marked as uniquely American by its geographic setting, prototypical male protagonist and core American values. Music in the Western examines these conventions and the scores that have shaped

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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

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Kathryn Kalinak is Professor of English and Film Studies at Rhode Island College.  She is the author of Settling the Score: Music in the Classical Hollywood Film (1992), How the West Was Sung:  Music in the Westerns of John Ford (2007), and Film Music:  A Very Short Introduction (2010). In 2011, she received RIC's Thorp Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Creative Activity.