Drawing on extensive research in the Rodgers and Hammerstein papers, Jim Lovensheimer explores South Pacific’s complex messages and demonstrates how the presentation of those messages changed throughout the creative process. Lovensheimer, an assistant professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University, shows how Rodgers, and especially Hammerstein, continually refined the theme of racial intolerance until it was more acceptable to mainstream Broadway audiences. Co-sponsored by the University of Missouri – Kansas City and Oxford University Press.