ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|14 pages
The Wild West meets the wives of Windsor
Shakespeare and music in the mythological American West
chapter 6|21 pages
‘You can’t build an empire without getting a mite unscrupulous’
Music, ethics, and Cold War criticism in
Doctor Who
’s ‘The Gunfighters’ (1966)
chapter 7|20 pages
From the Old West to the new future
Stoney Burke, The Outer Limits, and the Daystar stock music library
