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My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories is written in two parts, a fictional story about Mickey, an eleven year old white girl, growing up in New Orleans in 1954 and a non-fictional story of my experience as a teenager in New Orleans in 1959. Part I is Mickey's personal coming of age story influenced by the forbidden music of rhythm and blues. Since Mickey's story is set in the same year of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, it is also a coming of age story of a new social consciousness. Part II is a non-fiction recounting of an integration incident from my own teen years which serves as a fictional element later in Mickey's story when she is a teenager.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
M.F.A.
Level thesis:degree_level
Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Drama and Communications
Year
2003

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Ruth, Mary-Louise
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Katrovas, Richard
  • Boyden, Joseph
  • Morris, Mary

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Repository record dc:identifier
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/16
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1015

Chain of custody

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Last updated
2026-07-24
Source record
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citation

Ruth, Mary-Louise. My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories. Thesis thesis, 2003. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/16