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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
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
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.
208 pages, photos, notes, bibliography, index
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 28, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780786434596 |
Publishers | McFarland & Co Inc |
Pages | 216 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 11 mm · 295 g |
Language | English |