Stephen A. King
Stephen A. King is chairperson and professor of communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He has written extensively about rhetoric, public memory, and cultural tourism and is author of Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control and I’m Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta and coauthor (with Roger Davis Gatchet) of Terror and Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now
Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta
A critical look at the controversial strategies officials and promoters wield to “sell” the blues
Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control
How Jamaica fashioned a tourist beacon from reggae music and the Rastafarian revolution
Terror and Truth
Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement
The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry