Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western

Kendra Preston Leonard, Mariana Whitmer

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Routledge
21 August 2018

The Arts: General & Reference; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Humanities; Media studies

Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series

Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western examines the use and function of musical tropes and gestures traditionally associated with the American Western in new and different contexts ranging from Elizabethan theater, contemporary drama, space opera and science fiction, Cold War era European filmmaking, and advertising. Each chapter focuses on a notable use of Western musical tropes, textures, instrumentation, form, and harmonic language, delving into the resonance of the music of the Western to cite bravura, machismo, colonisation, violence, gender roles and essentialism, exploration, and other concepts.

Edited by: Kendra Preston Leonard, Mariana Whitmer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9781138571532
ISBN 10: 1138571539
Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 21 August 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"1. ""The Wild West meets the Wives of Windsor: Shakespeare and Music in the Mythological American West"" (Kendra Preston Leonard) 2. ""The Commodification of the Western Soundscape"" (Mariana Whitmer) 3. ""High-senberg Noon: Breaking Bad and the Sounds of the West"" (Jeffrey Bullins) 4. ""Reinterpreting the American Western in Ry Cooder’s Soundtrack to Paris, Texas (1984)"" (Erin Bauer) 5.""Sonic Markers of the Science Fiction Western"" (S. Andrew Granade) 6. ""'You Can’t Build an Empire Without Getting a Mite Unscrupulous': Music, Morality, and Cold War Criticism in Doctor Who’s ‘The Gunfighters’ (1966)"" (Stanley C. Pelkey II) 7. ""From the Old West to the New Future: Stoney Burke, The Outer Limits, and the Daystar Stock Music Library"" (Reba A. Wissner) 8. ""The Soundscape of the East German Indianerfilme"" (Johanna Frances Yunker)"

Kendra Preston Leonard is a musicologist and music theorist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and music and adaptations of Shakespeare. She is the author of five scholarly books and numerous book chapters and articles. Her work has appeared in Borrowers and Lenders, Cerae, The Journal of Historical Biography, The Journal of Musicological Research, and Current Musicology, among other journals and collections. She is the winner of many scholarly awards and prizes, including the 2017–2018 Rudolph Ganz Long-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library. She is the Director of the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive. Mariana Whitmer is Executive Director of the Society for American Music and adjunct faculty at West Virginia University and the University of Pittsburgh. She has published widely on music in the silent and classic Western, including Film Score Guides for Jerome Moross’s The Big Country (2012) and Elmer Bernstein’s The Magnificent Seven (2017). Her current book projects continue to focus on studies of classic Western film scores, including Scoring the Plains: Music in the Classic Hollywood Western and Dissonance Intended: the Western Film Scores of Max Steiner.