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This Text Examines Conventions About Hollywood Western Films And The Musical Scores That Have Shaped Them. The Cowboy Chorus: Narrative And Cultural Functions Of The Western Title Song / Corey K. Creekmur -- A Cowboy Has To Sing: John Ford, Walt Disney, And Sons Of The Pioneers / Ross Care -- Reinventing The Western Film Score: Jerome Moross And The Big Country / Mariana Whitmer -- Silencing The Truth: Music And Identity In The Unforgiven / Ben Winters -- A Tale Of Two Cowgirls: Songs, Western Novelty Acts, And 1950s Hollywood / Caryl Flinn -- Innovation And Imitation: An Analysis Of The Soundscape Of Akira Kurosawa's Chambara Westerns / Yuna De Lannoy -- The Dollars Trilogy: There Are Two Kinds Of Western Heroes, My Friend! / Charles Leinberger -- Europe Cannibalizes The Western: Ravenous / K.j. Donnelly -- 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 -- From The Barroom Floor: American Song, Saloon Culture, Stack O'lee, And Wild Bill, Or Did You Touch My Hat? / Peter Stanfield -- Musical Worlds Of The Millennial Western: Dead Man And The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada / Claudia Gorbman -- Mountains, Music, And Murder: Scoring The American West In There Will Be Blood And No Country For Old Men / Matthew Mcdonald. Edited By Kathryn Kalinak. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.