My novel is set in 1958-59 Florida and involves a young, white musician who plays jazz in black clubs. During his high school senior year he must make important decisions about his future based on what he can learn about the nature of talent and creativity and the price he'll have to pay for their pursuit. He's also inevitably caught up in the struggle of blacks for equality, and in his own struggle against the conformism of the times. He experiments with alcohol and drugs unavailable to his classmates, risking even his future as a musician. He has an affair with a black jazz singer. The novel is somewhat modernist in structure, like its jazz content, but remains essentially an old-fashioned novel of initiation or bildungsroman. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1228. / Major Professor: Van K. Brock. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78234 |
| Contributors | Hill, Richard Fontaine., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 210 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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