South Pacific
Subtitle: paradise rewritten
By: Jim Lovensheimer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195377026
Subjects: Rodgers, Richard, -- 1902-1979; Hammerstein, Oscar, -- 1895-1960; Musicals -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who can explain it?; title: The musical is the message; title: An adaptable source : Michener's Tales of the South Pacific; title: False starts : the disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert; title: You've got to be carefully rewritten : the distillation of racial intolerance; title: Nellie and the boys : situating gender in South Pacific; title: Culture clash : colonialism and South Pacific; title: Still dreaming of paradise.