About the Author

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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, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Roger Davis Gatchet is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Media at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the rhetoric of public memory and popular culture, as well as oral history.