Good medicine and good music
Subtitle: a biography of Mrs. Joe Person, patent remedy entrepreneur and musician, including the complete text of her 1903 autobiography
By: David Hursh and Chris Goertzen.
Contributors: Goertzen, Chris.; Person, Alice Morgan, 1840-1913.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780786434596
Subjects: Person, Alice Morgan, -- 1840-1913; Businesswomen -- North Carolina -- Biography; Folk musicians -- North Carolina -- Biography; Women folk musicians -- North Carolina -- Biography; Patent medicines -- North Carolina -- History; Folk music -- North Carolina -- History and criticism; North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; North Carolina -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Alice Morgan Person was a North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography. In addition, her story is told through new research and first-hand accounts"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203) and index.