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 Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography.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.
- ISBN10 0786454644
- ISBN13 9780786454648
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
- Format eBook
- Pages 221
- Language English