Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person
Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography
Publisher: McFarland | ISBN: 0786434597 | edition 2009 | PDF | 216 pages | 11,1 mb
Publisher: McFarland | ISBN: 0786434597 | edition 2009 | PDF | 216 pages | 11,1 mb
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 Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand accounts.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 patentmedicine and southern folk music are discussed.