Date of Award
5-2003
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Drama and Communications
Department
Drama and Communications
Major Professor
Katrovas, Richard
Second Advisor
Boyden, Joseph
Third Advisor
Morris, Mary
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.
Recommended Citation
Ruth, Mary-Louise, "My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories" (2003). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 16.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/16
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