Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western

About

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 20172018 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 Morosss The Big Country (2012) and Elmer Bernsteins 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.