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)
Imprint 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.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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