1.2 Oklahoma!

2021-05-21

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This week, we launch our Season 1 tour through some of the major musicals of Richard Rodgers (1902-79) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1865-1965), who are often credited with pioneering the “integrated musical” that largely defined the great musicals of the mid-20th century. ________________________________ In Oklahoma! (1943), we talk about: Definitions of “the land” and who occupies it The cultural impact that Oklahoma! had, and how it reinvented the Broadway musical The hidden history...

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In Oklahoma! (1943), we talk about:

Definitions of “the land” and who occupies it
The cultural impact that Oklahoma! had, and how it reinvented the Broadway musical
The hidden history of Oklahoma, “Indian Territory,” and the queerer, darker history of what lies underneath the surface of a deliberately white-washed world
Rene Girard, James Allison, and the theological underpinnings of the scapegoating narrative

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