A celebration of the great musical work by Luis Bacalov and the many unsung artists of spaghetti western music. A particular emphasis on the score fore 1966's Django and how the music contributed to the movie's success and cult status. It was popular all over the world and for the global audience it defined what a western looked like for a whole generation of people. The contemporary director Quentin Tarantino has been explicit in his praise for the spaghetti western genre and made his own version of a spaghetti western when he made, "Django Unchained". Tarantino deliberately used the name, "Django" to reference the 1966 cult movie but also in reference to the fact that after 1966 the name "Django" appeared in so many European westerns that came afterwards.
A huge part of the spaghetti western genre is the music. A new rock & roll sound came the musical scores of the western. Due to budget reasons the Italian studios couldn't always afford big orchestral scores, so to fill the sound they often made use of the now iconic twangy electric guitar in those soundtracks.
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Keywords: spaghetti western soundtrack, documentary, movie analysis,