South Pacific : Paradise Rewritten
ISBN: 9780199975440 | 0199975442
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in the Rodgers and the Hammerstein papers, including Hammerstein's personal notes on James A. Michener'sTales of the South Pacific, Jim Lovensheimer offers a fascinating reading of "South Pacific" that explores the show's complex messages and demon... MORE
Chapter 1: Who Can Explain It?
Chapter 2: The Musical is the Message
Chapter 3: An Adaptable Source: Michener's Tales of the South Pacific
Chapter 4: False Starts: The Disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert
Chapter 5: You've Got to be Carefully Rewritten: The Distillation of Racial Intolerance
Chapter 6: Nellie and the Boys: Situating Gender in South Pacific
Chapter 7: Culture Clash: Colonialism... MORE
Jim Lovensheimer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Vanderbilt University.
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