Good Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autob (A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician)

Author
Hursh, David W.
Publisher
McFarland
Published
20210101
ISBN
9780786434596
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-0)

Description

Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. This title discusses her place in the histories of American patent medicine and southern folk music from an ethnomusicological perspective.