Organ Music is a comic novel of approximately 100,000 words about a playwright, Rosalind Lawson, and here attempt to escape from a fundamentalist-ridden north Florida town. When her husband, Henry, a folklorist, remarks that he would be willing to leave Ohumpka if Roz beat his salary, she accepts a job as a dialoguist for a new Atlanta-based soap. As her new job progresses, Roz finds her own life slowly turning to soap until she realizes that a person with a comic worldview cannot find happiness writing for a humorless medium any more than she can find happiness living in a humorless town. / The novel celebrates the Comic Spirit but also satirizes four dismal phenomena in our society: workaholism, soap opera, fundamentalism, and pornography. After four months on the soap, Roz is caught in a terrible tangle of the four, which have more in common, she discovers, than most people realize or would care to admit. Yet, it is this very tangle that enables her to escape from Ohumpka. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-10, Section: A, page: 3227. / Major Professors: Janet Burroway; Jerome Stern. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989. / Organ Music is a comic novel of approximately 100,000 words about a playwright, Rosalind Lawson, and here attempt to escape from a fundamentalist-ridden north Florida town. When her husband, Henry, a folklorist, remarks that he would be willing to leave Ohumpka if Roz beat his salary, she accepts a job as a dialoguist for a new Atlanta-based soap. As her new job progresses, Roz finds her own life slowly turning to soap until she realizes that a person with a comic worldview cannot find happiness writing for a humorless medium any more than she can find happiness living in a humorless town. / The novel celebrates the Comic Spirit but also satirizes four dismal phenomena in our society: workaholism, soap opera, fundamentalism, and pornography. After four months on the soap, Roz is caught in a terrible tangle of the four, which have more in common, she discovers, than most people realize or would care to admit. Yet, it is this very tangle that enables her to escape from Ohumpka.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_67992 |
| Creators | Johnson, Claudia Hunter |
| Publisher | Florida State University Libraries |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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