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"Still dreaming of paradise": Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", and postwar America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Still dreaming of paradise": Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", and postwar America./
Author:	Bond, Randall Ives.
Description:	337 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-06, Section: A, page: 2263.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-06A.
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9737805
ISBN:	9780591477917

"Still dreaming of paradise": Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", and postwar America.
Bond, Randall Ives.

"Still dreaming of paradise": Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", and postwar America. - 337 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-06, Section: A, page: 2263.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 1996.

Oklahoma! and South Pacific were Rodgers and Hammerstein's most successful and popular musicals of the 1940s. 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 the turn of the century and the South Seas during World War II. The most significant connection between the two musicals and the basis for a postwar Paradise is the geopolitics of an expanding American frontier, paralleling the nation's evolution from a national to a global power in the years during and after World War II.

ISBN: 9780591477917Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

"Still dreaming of paradise": Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", and postwar America.
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