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The show is co-sponored by Paul Jones and the Department of
Journalism and Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
Special thanks go to Michael Taft and Jill Rostier of the
Southern Folklife
Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
Sources Include:
Brooks McNamara, STEP RIGHT UP, Garden City: Doubleday, 1976, Revised
1995.
The American Place Theater, The Vi-Ton-ka Medicine Show, program notes,
1983.
David Armstrong and Elizabeth Metzger Armstrong, THE GREAT AMERICAN
MEDICINE SHOW: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health
evangilists and heros from Plymouth Rock to present. Prentice Hall, 1991.
N.T. Oliver and Wesley Stout, Alagazam: The Story of Pitchman High and
Low, The Saturday Evening Post, 19 October 1929.
The National Institute of Medicine, Here Today, Here Tomorrow: The
Medicine Show Images at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/ephemera/medshow.html
Tapes, video, sound etc. supplied by - Southern Folklife
Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
Other resources
Film:
Born for Hard Luck, a portrait in film of the black medicine show
performer Peg leg Sam Jaackson. Distributed by Tom Davenport Films.
Music:
Pink Anderson,Volume 2: Medicine Show Man. Prestige-Bluesville 1051.
Flyrights Last Medicine Show, the only extant live recording of a med
show.
Tommy Scotts Orginal Georgia Peanut Band at the Medicine Show. Concorde
005.
Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man. Trix 3302.
Charlie Monroes Kentucky Partners, Noonday Jamboree. County 538.
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