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001 2009041073
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005 20130417082252.0
008 091001s2010 enkag b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780195377026 (alk. paper)
020 $a0195377028 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780195997544 (pbk)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn449284797
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050 00 $aML2054$b.L68 2010
082 00 $a782.1/4$222
100 1 $aLovensheimer, Jim.
245 10 $aSouth Pacific :$bparadise rewritten /$cJim Lovensheimer.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $axvii, 266 p. :$bill., music ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aBroadway legacies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (P. [242]-245) and index.
520 $aThis book explores the show's complex messages and demonstrates how the presentation of those messages changed throughout the creative process. Jim Lovensheimer shows how Rodgers and especially Hammerstein continually refined and softened the theme of racial intolerance until it was more acceptable to mainstream Broadway audiences.--[book jacket]
505 0 $aWho can explain it? -- The musical is the message -- An adaptable source : Michener's Tales of the South Pacific -- False starts : the disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert -- You've got to be carefully rewritten : the distillation of racial intolerance -- Nellie and the boys : situating gender in South Pacific -- Culture clash : colonialism and South Pacific -- Still dreaming of paradise.
600 10 $aRodgers, Richard,$d1902-1979.$tSouth Pacific.
600 10 $aHammerstein, Oscar,$cII,$d1895-1960.$tSouth Pacific.
650 0 $aMusicals$zUnited States$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
830 0 $aBroadway legacies