Philip Beidler is preparing a book on the subject of popular culture and
American memory. He has published an article on this topic:
"South Pacific and American Remembering"
Journal of American Studies 1993 27(2) 207-222
It discusses how World War II has been remembered in American popular
culture utilizing the example of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 musical
South Pacific.
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