South Pacific : paradise rewritten / Jim Lovensheimer.
Lovensheimer, Jim.
2010
ML2054 .L68 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
South Pacific : paradise rewritten / Jim Lovensheimer.
Author
Lovensheimer, Jim.
ISBN
9780195377026 (alk. paper)
0195377028 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 266 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Call Number
ML2054 .L68 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
782.1/4
Summary
This 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]
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Broadway legacies.
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