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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 and Chris Goertzen.
LIBRA CT275.P496 H87 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hursh, David, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Person, Alice Morgan, 1840-1913.
- Person, Alice Morgan.
- Businesswomen--North Carolina--Biography.
- Businesswomen.
- Folk musicians--North Carolina--Biography.
- Folk musicians.
- Women folk musicians--North Carolina--Biography.
- Women folk musicians.
- Patent medicines--North Carolina--History.
- Patent medicines.
- Folk music--North Carolina--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009]
- Summary:
- "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 Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography.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 and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786434596
- 0786434597
- OCLC:
- 298304618
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