Good Medicine and Good Music
A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography
David Hursh author Chris Goertzen author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:28th Jul '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand accounts. Her place in the histories of American patent medicine and southern folk music are discussed.
“fascinating...a thorough composite...a very worth-while book, exhaustively researched”—Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
ISBN: 9780786434596
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
Weight: 295g
216 pages