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"Still Dreaming Of Paradise": Rodgers And Hammerstein ' S Oklahoma!, South Pacific , And Postwar America, Randall Bond Dec 1996

"Still Dreaming Of Paradise": Rodgers And Hammerstein ' S Oklahoma!, South Pacific , And Postwar America, Randall Bond

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Oklahoma! and South Pacific were Rodgers and Hammerstein's most successful and popular musicals of the 1940's. This study demonstrates their function as modern morality plays for their audiences. Specifically, the two musicals provided Americans with a prescription for a postwar Paradise. This was a Paradise based upon the American Dream of rebirth and renewal acted out in a landscape of second chances. The components of this Paradise are examined in topical essays that consider such issues as Americanism, consumerism, tourism, racism, and optimism. Each of these elements links what would otherwise appear to be disparate narratives: the American West at …


Winter 1996, 90.9 Wmpg Fm Jan 1996

Winter 1996, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

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Summer 1996, 90.9 Wmpg Fm Jan 1996

Summer 1996, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

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Fall 1996, 90.9 Wmpg Fm Jan 1996

Fall 1996, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

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Unstable Compounds: Progressive And Regressive Impulses In Four Contemporary American Documentaries And The Prospect For Social Change, Stephen Henry Bransford Jan 1996

Unstable Compounds: Progressive And Regressive Impulses In Four Contemporary American Documentaries And The Prospect For Social Change, Stephen Henry Bransford

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Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Chadwick Ross Jan 1996

Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Chadwick Ross

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