Notes
Ethnomusicologist Dr. Chris Goertzen from The University of Southern Mississippi was so impressed by Alice’s folk music arrangements that he analyzed her Collection of Popular Airs and published his findings in the following article: Goertzen, Chris. “Mrs. Joe Person’s Popular Airs: Early Blackface Minstrel Tunes in Oral Tradition.” Ethnomusicology 35, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 31-53. - (535 KB)

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