Good Medicine and Good Music

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. Chris Goertzen is an associate professor who teaches music history and world music at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

• 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

“fascinating...a thorough composite...a very worth-while book, exhaustively researched”—Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.