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Informationen zum Autor Award winner David 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. Klappentext 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 Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand accounts.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. Zusammenfassung Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. This title discusses her place in the histories of American patent medicine and southern folk music from an ethnomusicological perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction BOOK I: "The Chivalry of Man as Exemplified in the Life of Mrs. Joe Person": Alice Morgan Person's Story in Her Own Words, 1858-1892Preface Foreword PART1. The Origin of Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy 2. Castles in the Air 3. The Development of the Remedy 4. More Castles in the Air 5. The Chivalry of Man 6. More Chivalry 7. Clouds-Sunshine: "After the Alps Comes Italy" 8. I Go to Church 9. More Chivalry 10. Partner No. 2 11. Tarboro and Tarboro Ways 12. Partners, Adieu! PART II: NOTES BY THE WAYSIDEFlowers Plucked from the Hedges and Thorns from the Briar-Bushes Poor John! "Sonny" Not My Daughter, Oh No! What Is Happiness? Big, Rich and a Strong Pillar An Honest Man Is the Noblest Work of God A Woman's Opinion Finale BOOK II: A Life Out of the Ordinary: Alice's Story in the Words of OthersPART I: THE WOMAN1. Daughter and Sister 2. Wife and Mother 3. Medicine Maker and Musician 4. Public and Private PART II: REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDICINE AND THE MUSIC5. Snake Oil or Native American Medical Marvel? 6. The Remedy and the Turn-of-the-Century Patent Medicine Trade 7. Alice and Music in Fashion 8. Popular Airs, Blue Alsatian Mountains, and Nostalgia Appendix: Timeline of Alice Morgan Person and Her Company Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
