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Winter, 2008
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How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford. By Kathryn Kalinak. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. x + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, 14.95, paper; $60.00, 35.00, cloth.)
      Just as John Ford's films created a visual iconography of the West, so too, more subliminally, did his work conjure a sound-scape of the region. Ford used every type of music, but especially popular, period, and folk songs, as well as Protestant hymns, to create a convincing aural environment for his characters. As Kathryn Kalinak argues in How the West Was Sung, music mattered so much to Ford that he even managed to include specific tunes in his early silents, showing railroad workers singing "Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill," for example, and thereby forcing the pianist to play exactly what Ford wanted. . . .
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