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Masterson, Michael Lee. "Sounds of the Frontier: Music in Buffalo Bill's Wild West," University of New Mexico, May 1990.
Describing, analyzing, and interpreting music accompanying Buffalo Bill’s famous Wild West traveling frontier exhibition at the end of the nineteenth century, this study connects musical elements in the show to themes resonant in American culture-progress, wilderness, civilization, and the garden. Specific music analyzed includes “civilized” Cowboy Band music, “wild” Native American music, and synthetic popular music of the day such as African-American influenced “coon songs”, among other styles. Findings reveal a dominant “white” culture controlling the show’s musical “frontier sounds” and, therefore, through cultural metaphor, the “darker” cultures in the show.
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