Good Medicine and Good Music

Download or read book Good Medicine and Good Music written by David Hursh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand accounts.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.