Good Medicine and Good Music

A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7864-3459-6
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

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 by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes, leading one newspaper to call her 'perhaps the best known woman in the state'. Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography. In addition, her story is told through new research and first-hand accounts, and her place in the histories of American patent medicine and southern folk music are discussed from an ethnomusicological perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hursh, David

Goertzen, Chris

Über Autor(innen)

Award winner David W. Hursh is head music librarian and associate professor at East Carolina University's J.Y. Joyner Library in Greenville, North Carolina. He is the author of several scholarly articles that have appeared in Music Reference Services Quarterly and North Carolina Libraries. Chris Goertzen is an associate professor who teaches music history and world music at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He was the Mississippi academic contact for the traveling Smithsonian exhibit called New Harmonies, and often interviews traditional musicians and craftsmen for the Mississippi Arts Council.