Flower drum song : a musical play / by Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

“…Flower drum song.…”

Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.…”

Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty: American mass culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and the I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”

The Broadway song : a singer's guide / by Clark, Mark Ross, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Soprano/High mezzo -- From The boys from Syracuse: Falling in love with love -- From Brigadoon: Waitin' for my dearie -- From Guys and Dolls: If I were a bell -- From Fanny: I have to tell you -- From The most happy fella: Somebody, somewhere -- From The most happy fella: Warm all over -- From The music man: My white knight -- From Flower drum song: Love, look away -- From Fiorello!: When did I fall in love? …”