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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 Cover Image E-book

Good medicine and good music : a biography of Mrs. Joe Person, patent remedy entrepreneur and musician, including the complete text of her 1903 autobiography

Hursh, David 1962- (author.). Goertzen, Chris (author.). Person, Alice Morgan 1840-1913 (Added Author).

Summary: 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 Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand accounts.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.

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  • ISBN: 9780786454648
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) : illustrations
  • Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2009]

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Person, Alice Morgan 1840-1913
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
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
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